HP Pavillion A810N (ASUS K8S-LA) widescreen

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

I recently got a new HP w1907 monitor, which has a 1440 x 900 native resolution. My computer however, won't allow me to choose that resolution. I updated the BIOS on the HP website (I am using a hp pavillion a810n) and I also updated the UniVGA 3 to 3.84 and 3.85. This gave me far more resolution options, but 1440 x 900 wasn't one of them.

What can I do? Surely this computer must be capable of displaying such a resolution.

Heres some additional info on the computer:

HP Pavillion a810n
512 MB DDR SDRAM
SiS 760 / 128 mb Shared Graphics Memory
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.15, 10/19/2005

edit by cp: changed topic

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2400 MHz (12 x 200)
Motherboard Name Asus K8S-LA (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset SiS 760GX, AMD Hammer
System Memory [ TRIAL VERSION ]
DIMM1: Hynix HYMD264 646D8J-D43 512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (3.0-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz) (2.5-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz) (2.0-2-2-6 @ 133 MHz)
BIOS Type Award (10/19/05)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
Here is some more information:

Display:
Video Adapter SiS 760 (128 MB)
3D Accelerator SiS 330 Mirage IGP
Monitor HP w1907 [19" LCD] (3CQ84117WC)

BIOS Properties:
Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Version 3.15
Release Date 10/19/2005
Size 512 KB
Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, ATAPI ZIP, LS-120
Capabilities Flash BIOS, Shadow BIOS, Selectable Boot, EDD, BBS
Supported Standards DMI, APM, ACPI, ESCD, PnP
Expansion Capabilities ISA, PCI, AGP, USB

[cp]

patched. i'll upload it asap to our download site.

Thank you! Whenever your done (no rush), just point me in the right direction on where to download it and how to apply it.

Happy Holidays

[cp]

it's already available on our download page. read the sticky thread in this section on how to find it!!!

I see it there, but I am directed to a 404 Not Found page when I click on it -- odd because all the other links on that page seem to work.

[edwin]

Not Found
The requested URL /files/vgabiospatched/hp/Pavillion_A810/sp26627.zip was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at www.wimsbios.com Port 80

I'm afraid you'll have to wait a bit longer...

[edwin]

It's here:

http://www.wimsbios.com/files/vgabiospa ... p26627.zip

it is an A810N after all. CP, please fix the link

[cp]

silly me! fixed :)

I just tried to run the BIOS update and I am given a message saying "Proper command line parameters were not passed. No action taken."

Any ideas?

[cp]

what exactly did you execute? did you unpack the archive? did you run the flash.exe?

cp wrote:

what exactly did you execute? did you unpack the archive? did you run the flash.exe?

In the folder, there is a 315.rom file, a WinFlash system file, a dll, instruction document, installer, and WinFlash application. I tried using the installer, as I'm unfamiliar with the WinFlash application.

[cp]

please run flash.exe
i don't have an hp machine that i could run tests on.

But how? It has for parts for me to update: BootBlock, ESCD Block, DMI Block, Mainblock. By default, bootblock and MainBlock are selected to update. And what is the actual BIOS file? That 315.rom?

Ok I went through it using the settings that were already there on WinFlash, and I can now get the 1440 x 900 resolution.

Thanks for all the help!