T50101 1900x1200 resolution

Hi All

I have a 24" dell monitor and a fujitsu t5010. I would really like to extend my desktop onto my 24" monitor but the driver only goes up to 1600x1200. I downloaded the driver straight from intel's website. I have seen people mention that they have gotten this to work. Any ideas?

I have seen that I can specify a custom resolution...I don't want to fry the machine though.

Thanks!
Andrew

 

Just tried this on my T5010 & 2408WFP (Windows 7 32 bit, latest driver from fujitsu's site). It went right to 1920 x 1200 on the external display.

 

Thanks for checking,

I'm running Windows 7 64bit and just installed the drivers from fujitsu. Still 1600x1200. Would it be catastrophe to install the 32 bit drivers?

 

You can generally use 32-bit software in a 64-bit OS but you have to make sure Windows runs it in compatibility mode. That can be a pain as you usually need to select a particular executable and set that to the right mode. Drivers are made up of more than just executables though (dlls, etc.) and may not ever work right.

According to Microsoft:

If I'm running a 64-bit version of Windows, do I need 64-bit drivers for my devices?

Yes, all hardware devices need 64-bit drivers to work on a 64-bit version of Windows. Drivers designed for 32-bit versions of Windows won't work on computers running 64-bit versions of Windows.

So, while there may be a way (and you can certainly experiment), it's going to be painful!

 

I would check the monitor specs too. Not all 24" monitors go beyond 1600x1200

 

Trying to use the T5010 to push too many pixels around is a mistake. Its GPU can hardly do this at 1600 x 1200, going higher would only overwhelm the machine.

 

Hi All,

Thanks so much for all the responses.

This problem is now solved.

After hours of playing around with drivers and configurations....it turns out that the vga cable I had doesn't support over 1600x1200. I swapped it out with another one and the monitor immediately self-adjusted to 1900x1200.

Thanks,
AFrieze

 

What are you smoking?

The 5010 has no problem with this.

 

I agree 1920x1200 works fine. In fact on the i3 T700 I can scale Hulu or a HD video using GOM player and it plays without shutter nor flutter. Task manager shows two threads using about 23% as compated to my T4220 with one of two threads using 85-90%

 

No Problems so far with 1900x1200.

I can even play starcraft 2 on my laptop screen. ;P