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Hey everyone,

I purchased the x61T a few months ago, love my laptop to death. However the 1024 X 768 resolution is no longer cutting it. I'm looking to try to force a higher resolution on the screen. I've tried using reschange and power strip, but both of these were unable to yield a proper result. Then I stumbled upon a program called DTD calculator, apparently several HTPC enthusiast have been using it to set custom resolutions for their tvs. Should work the same way for our laptops!

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=947830
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/Wiki ... cs/239.htm

Those are the links to the guides. However even after this long process I still can't force my display to a higher resolution. Does anyone have an idea of how to bump to a higher resolution? Is our resolution locked via bios?

Thanks Much

the screen you have is a XGA screen. That's the MAX resolution it can display because that's the amount of pixels the screen has. You can't magically create more pixels. You can only output to a larger LCD and have the higher resolutions there.

Sorry I don't know much about screen formats. The whole reason why I've been trying to get a higher resolution is because I have a buddy with an eeepc and used hacked drivers to get his resolution to 1024X768, when the eeepc has a 7 in (17.8 cm) 800×480 TFT LCD with LED blacklight. Was he able to achieve this because his display is TFT and not XGA?

TFT is a type of LCD. XGA is the resolution such LCD can display.

I only found like 1 link about that but i'm stumped there.

So, your trying to find some "hacked drivers" in order to bump up the res of your machine...if I read it correctly?

Could you not ask your buddy with the hacked eepc to hack some drivers for you X61T?

Even if it is possible, I would imagine the screen wouldn't look too great with more pixels crammed on it than it was designed to display (much like how an LCD looks bad at resolutions lower than its native one).

Why don't you post in the marketplace and see if there's anyone who might want to do an XGA > SXGA+ swap?

Yea your hearing me right. My buddy was not the one that hacked the drivers. Some forum member on a eeepc modding site took care of the hard parts. It basically scales the resolution to fit the screen, and yes its not very clear. I just need something so that when I have my investment windows open I can view all of them at the same time. As soon as I'm done with it I'll go back to native resolution for clarity. I don't really wanna trade my screen away, I like the touch capability. I'll do some more poking around and post my results back here. Im sure someone else would like to use these drivers.

The number of pixels on the screen you have is fixed. You can change the resolution, but then you will just be panning the screen around. You can't get more information on the screen than your native screen resolution.

Unless its scaled right?

How about changing the PPP value ?

PPP value? please clarify...

I'm sorry, I meant the DPI or PPI value that you can change (in Vista at least) from the control panel. Changing this value will change the size of all fonts displayed in the system.

You can't go from 100% dpi scaling to less than 100%, its just not an option in windows.

I did a little more digging, apparently this DTD program should do the trick. The only problem is that the videobios, some part of the bios on the lenovo laptop blocks any resolution except for the one issued from factory. Normally most videobios will block just the normal resolutions, such as 1400X1050 or 1280X720. By using the DTD and setting resolutions to 1382X1050 or 1278X718 the videobios will no longer recognize the resolution as blocked. However lenovo has go one step further to block all resolutions in all ranges except for the ones specified to work on your screen.

This means a we need to hack the bios. Anyone have experience in this?