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XP Professional Can't Run in VGA mode?

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imported_Sasha

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On my newest computer I decided to re-install Windows XP Professional. It wasn't until I decided that after installing the SP2 that ever attempting to install the NVidia drivers for the PCI-Express/Detonator drivers would undo what I was attempting not to do: run in a mode above VGA.

I am attempting to run this PC in VGA mode so that I can use the VGA port on my RPTV, which is restriced to 640x480 at 60-Hz. Once I had accomplished this the plan was to use a breakout cable (VGA-to-5xRCA) and use the DTV input, which accepts both Component and RGBHV, but restricted to 1080i and 540P.

I had tried several times in a post-800x600 condition to use PowerStrip to create and use a VGA resolution, but the operating system just would not allow it. Its only when presented with this impasse I chose a reinstall. I got XPpro installed and using VGA. I successfully installed SP2 while staying in VGA-mode. But as soon as I installed the Detonator drivers XPpro popped into SVGA mode without even asking me, and in the display settings VGA is no longer even available.

All I can say is that this is a major weakness on Microsoft's part. Even uninstalling the Detonator drivers fails to afford me the ability to get back to VGA-mode. Anyone have any suggestions other that re-installing again?
 
Unfortunately, its not going to help if the limit of the driver itself is the cause. Let me see if I can uninstall the Detonator driver using the driver reverse feature.
 
But this is nonsense. XP asks during the initial startup after the initial files are installed for the testing of SVGA ability (i.e. you display can run at SVGA or greater). Lack of a positive response keeps the system in VGA mode. And it was only after the Detonator drivers were installed, and a reboot therein, something had to report I was not being honest in the graphics' display's ability, hehe. I find this terribly amusing that Microsoft's latest and greatest can't do basic math, which is how I felt after some +40 semester hours of advance math in college.
 
There is something about NVidia's drivers in XP. I wasn't able to get them to run at under 800x600 res for the desktop, nor at 60Hz (min 70Hz, I think). It was a total PITA, because the system was an old one with a PCI TNT1 16MB and an ancient 14" VGA monitor (whatever it was, it coudn't handle 800x600 @ 70 or 75Hz).

I don't know if it's the NV drivers, or XP, but something is causing them to filter the mode-list. That another annoyance of XP that I don't have with W2K. With W2K, you can manually select from a giant global modelist if you want to.
 
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