BIOS Updates forum

I recently got a new monitor Acer 19".

The problem is the widescreen resolution 1440x900 is not supported.

I have upgraded to the latest driver on SIS site, but no use.

Seems to be I might need a BIOS upgrade. Please suggest.

I did an online scan of my system. I am enclosing the findings below:

BIOS Type: Award
BIOS Date: February 8th 2002
BIOS ID: 02/08/2002-SiS630ET-TUSI-MN
BIOS OEM: ASUS TUSI-M ACPI BIOS Revision 1013 - ASUS TUSI-M ACPI BIOS Revision 1013
Chipset: SiS 630 rev 48
SuperIO: ITE 8705/SiS 950 rev 2 at port 002E
Manufacturer: System Manufacturer
Motherboard: System Name
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1.0
Maximum Memory: 512MB
Installed Memory: 256MB
Memory Config: Slot1:0 Slot2:256
Drivers: Your system has 22 drivers and 3 outdated drivers.

there is no video bios available that supports your chipset and widescreen resolutions with Windows. so either you get a PCI vga card or you install any linux distribution since the free x11 driver supports widescreen modes out of the box without the need for a special video bios version.

oh, you could still write SIS and complain about their lousy Windows drivers and/or their video bios support in general.