BIOS Updates forum

Hi,
I am new to this Forum and hope someone will help me. I am fairly competent with PCs, though I am at a dead end with this.
I just got myself a flat screen monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 920NW). I plugged it in and the resolution was very odd, so I went into Control Panel to alter it but there is no option for 1440 x 900, which I need. Samsung Website states that the VBIOS may need to be updated if this option is not available within the Control panel.

The highest I have is 1280 x 1024 which makes everything looked squashed.

The info I have gathered is as follows...

BIOS Type: AMI
BIOS Date: January 31st 2004
BIOS ID: 62-1029-001199-00101111-040201-SiS650-NECC_000
BIOS OEM: 8SIMLNF V1.0y - 1.0y
Chipset: SiS 651 rev 2
SuperIO: Winbond 697HF rev 2 at port 002E
Manufacturer: Packard Bell NEC
Motherboard: 00000000000000000000000
A BIOS Update has been detected for your PC.

All assistance would be most welcome. I thought this would be a simple pluig-and-play but not the case.

Mark

listed on the patched bios page:
http://www.wimsbios.com/files/vgabiospatched/bios.jsp

did you read the sticky post which said, read this first?

edwin wrote:listed on the patched bios page:
http://www.wimsbios.com/files/vgabiospatched/bios.jsp

It's a Packard-Bell OEM version but I can't see it there. Or ist it the Columbia 5 ?

Columbia 5, 6 or 7. Not sure what the difference is but you can find the specs for the Packard Bell machine at the Packard Bell support site.

it's either Columbia or Columbia 5P. after you identified your board, you can update the bios with the one from our bios page. make sure to remove previous SIS vga drivers and reinstall their latest drivers.

cp wrote:it's either Columbia or Columbia 5P. after you identified your board, you can update the bios with the one from our bios page. make sure to remove previous SIS vga drivers and reinstall their latest drivers.

Thanks I do so