Sis530/620 Widescreen

by **alisson** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:45 pm

Hi all.

Someone know how i enable widescreen resolution "1440x900" on sis530/620?

I try everything, update mobo bios, video card driver, nothing works :cry:

The system:

K6-2 500
Pc Chips M598 (Sis530)
Windows XP
Lg 196WTQ monitor

Tnx for any help

by cp » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:18 pm

there's no bios available that's recent enough to support widescreen modes on the SIS530/620. either switch to linux which drivers don't need a special video bios version or add a pci vga card.

by **alisson** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:44 am

Tnx CP

What PCI card can handle native resolution 1440x900? GF2 MX 400 Pci do? or need FX5200 above

I need card with these resolution and price low

, the power consumption low is important too.

This PC is for download/upload only.

The system uses 59watts now.

by cp » Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:01 pm

what about no vga at all (okay, you can't remove the onboard vga) and installing a linux distribution of your choice? access via ssh is all you really need. or, if you want some eyecandy: there are html interfaces, too.

1440x900 needs ~1.3MB video ram for 8bit (256 colors), 2.6MB for 16bit (64k colors) and 5.2MB for 24bit(+alpha) (16.8M colors). so you need at least 6MB video ram on the vga card. No SIS vga obviously.
the difficult question is: are there windows drivers for the card of your choice? if you'd use linux you could take almost anything that has enough vga ram. for windows use i'd stick to NVidia or ATI. a TNT (16MB) or TNT2 M64 (16MB or 32MB) should do.

my up-/download/router/nas/proxy machines use processors like Cyrix MediaGX 233MHz, 6x86MX 200MHz or K6-2 below 300MHz.

by **alisson** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:01 am

I will try linux.

Tnx again CP