General video driver question

[elance]

I was wondering if anyone can tell me why letting PnP install drivers for the video card the resolution is limited to 1280x1024, but if I run the full install (i.e. Catalyst Control Panel or the full install for Intel, etc) I then have the option to select higher resolutions.

Doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose of using PnP?

It's not a problem really, I just script the full install into my hardware independent imaging, but it's just something I've always wondered about.

[EzyStvy]

PnP is using standard built in Windows drivers...If your Vid Card was made after Windows.......You'd want to use the cd that came with the card....

[elance]

Maybe I should explain a little more. I am including the inf's and sys files, etc in a directory and pointing Windows to it for the drivers. it picks them up just fine. The drivers show as brand drivers and not Windows drivers in info.

I am wondering if maybe the resolutions are just being set automatically to the resolutions the attached monitor supports at time of load by reading the EDID info?

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to auto adjust this when a larger monitor is attached (not that I woud expect it to).

I will try it with a 22" attached during the load and see what happens.

I am doing 100% unattended hardware independent provisioning of my PC's here in the office using Landesk and PXE boot. Everything works just fine, I just have Landesk injecting a script and doing a silent full install of the video drivers. If I could get PnP to pick them up and work right that would save a few minutes during the load. That's all. Nothing earth shattering, more curious about it than anything.

[glc]

I just script the full install into my hardware independent imaging

You are probably going to have to continue doing this. Microsoft's PnP drivers are far from full featured and only support standard resolutions.