implodium Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Is there a way to change the default startup display from 640 x 480 ?I mean the screen resolution user gets after post-install first logon ? I used ResSwitch (from http://www.naughter.com/qres.html) insideRunOnceEx entry, but it reported failure (something like "display driver failed"). I even tried to manually set resolution to 1024x768 and then let ResSwitch(after including it in RunOnceEx and rebooting) downgrade it to 800 x 600,and it still fails.NOTE WELL : i'm testing the cd inside VMWare Workstation ! This may very well work on a real machine ...The only way i see is to unpack and hack the original files inside I386 folder. One more thing : i took the new cabarc.exe from RyanVM update pack andre-packed the orignal CAB files in I386, gaining about 9 MB of free space on CD.Original cabarc (one from "untouched" xp cd) has no LZX compression and itwon't suffice for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screwz Luse Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 uuummm... I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but assuming your drivers are all installed correctly for your video card, it should set the default resolution for the first boot. Just put the following in your winnt.sif file.[Display] Xresolution = 1280 Yresolution = 1024 BitsPerPel = 16 Vrefresh = 85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
too hip Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 When using VMWare see this post to install drivers: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=36724&hl=Outside of VMWare you will need to silently install you video card drivers and set you resolutions as mentioned above.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
implodium Posted May 6, 2005 Author Share Posted May 6, 2005 When using VMWare see this post to install drivers: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=36724&hl=Outside of VMWare you will need to silently install you video card drivers and set you resolutions as mentioned above....<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thanks ! I really never tried to fully understand consequences of testing inside VM.UPDATE : yesterday i prepared one smaller hdd and tried it. Install took muchlonger than in VM. Most likely win setup found hardware to install drivers for,so the whole process has been prolonged (and also the physcal cdrom isslower than ISO image or VCD).I guess VM emulates a bare-bone system, so there's not much for setup to do(this is why i was surprised how fast win installs on VM). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly14 Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Hi ImplodiumI am trying to do exactly the same as you in that I need to change the installation resolution from 640x480 up to a minimum of 800x600 so that an IBM application will install silently during the unattended install.Did you succeed in changing the unattended install display resolution that is used 'During' the build phase?RegardsGary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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