I bought Inspiron 1420 laptop from Dell with windows Vista home basic edition a week ago. I am observing strange problem with the display settings as It resets to 800X600 from 1280X800 and makes the display fuzzy whenever I put my computer to sleep or hibernate by just closing the screen. Its an intel inbuilt graphics display card and I upgraded the display driver Video: Intel GM965 Express Chipset Family, Driver, Windows Vista 32-bit, Multi Language, Multi System, v.7.14.10.1272, A02.But still the problem pertains.

Please help me in resolving this Issue as dell technical support is also not able to solve this problem.

Thanks,
Raheem

Mike,

Thanks for your reply. My settings for the display is 1280X800 and it resets to lowest only when i puts in sleep or hibernate mode. Since I checked with other laptops and this doesn't happen. It should not reset the display settings to low end until unless it is asked to do so.

I hope I could able to make you understand.

Please advice,

Thanks,
Raheem.

I think you got it now. It remains in the lowest display settings mode when I boot back from the hibernation / sleep .

But when I restart/reboot the computer fully then i can see the display settings has been set to optimal which i want i.e 1280X800.

I want it to retain the settings when I puts it in sleep/ hibernate mode as well.

Please advice,

Thanks,

Could it be a power save option to have the resolution revert back? Have you tried changing the behavior when you close the lid to be standby or do nothing?

Yeah - those should work. Also, if you friend has a laptop with exactly the same specs, see if his does the same.

--
Mike

Can this be of help?

http://downloadcenter.intel.co.....ws%20Vista*%20Home%20Premium,%2032-bit%20version&lang=eng

Great. Let's hope it continues to cooperate.

I didn't do any changes to the operating system. So again whenever I put the system in hibernate/sleep mode the display changes back from 1024X800 to 800X600 settings. Please help me.

Thanks,
Raheem

Alan,

Thanks for the update I have already tried both the options earlier i.e upgrading thedriver from the Intel site and also checking the performance information option .It didnt work .

Thanks,
Raheem.

I just bought the same computer, 1420, and thought I might be able to help out. I too have the lowered resolution issue though I believe my graphics card is different. I have the Nvidia 8400 but it does the exact same thing. Reverts to 1024x768 after reopening the display (or some lesser resolution).

I did two things and it appears to have gone away for now. I've only run the system for about 15 minutes and tested it a couple times so it may come back. First I updated the drivers for the video card. Sound like you've already done this. Next I right clicked on the battery symnbol in the task tray and selected Power Options. Change the plan to the Balance setting. You may have to hit "show additional plan" to allow this option. The only thing I changed in the plan was the brightness and I'm guessing this would have no effect. Other plans other than "Dell recommended may also work".

Let me know if this works for you as well. Good luck.