use powerstrip and see if you can get it to happen

Thanks for the suggestion; PowerStrip is something I had totally forgotten about. However, it doesn't seem to be able to modify the possible output resolutions with the 815.

There was a guy who modified the .inf file of the driver of voodoo 5 5500 and added wide screen resolutions. I bet the same can be applied in your case. Try to add the desired resolution with desired refresh rate to the .inf and it should work.

I would. It's that there's nothing obvious in the inf file (not even anything resolution related) and google isn't being too helpful. I honestly have no clue how to go about it.

Well, I decided this computer doesn't need the video capture card I had occupying a PCI slot. I removed it, installed a 4mb Matrox Millenium card from the mid 1990s after finding (to my surprise) that Matrox actually released official drivers for the card sometime in the early 2000s that supports widescreen.

http://i.imgur.com/tgpAU.jpg

It turns out that Intel did, in fact, release widescreen enabled drivers for the i810 and i815 chipsets and that I have simply been looking in the wrong places.

I tried the driver here and it works just fine:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.a … ng&DwnldID=9870

However, just as with the circa 1996 Matrox Millennium PCI card I tried in my old Compaq, I can only set the computer to use the full 1366x768 resolution of my monitor in 16-bit color mode. I suppose a memory limitation. Works for me though; my monitor does a pretty good job scaling and text with this thing set to 1280x720 looks just as nice.

The 2d image provided by the i815 on my AOC lcd using VGA actually looks nicer than coming from the Matrox Millennium card (which I consider a benchmark for how 2D image quality should be).

Saw this thread today:

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/131327-missin … on-1680-x-1050/