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picked up a spare Inspiron 1545, but cannot reach same level ofresolution as my original
Ok, something going on here baffling me slightly. I found and picked up
a spare Inspiron 1545 today expecting it to have nearly the same characteristics as my original. However, I'm finding the maximum resolution slightly less on the spare than on my original and I'm wondering why? On mine, I have it set at 1600x900, but on the spare, the max seems to be 1366x768, and that's even after a bios update from a10 to the most recent a14. The bios shows nearly identical video info aside from native resolution differences as mentioned, plus on mine is listed a panel type of 15.6" HD+ but on the spare just 15.6" HD (no plus sign). I DID have to replace the LCD on mine one time and I'll bet that why the resolution is able to go higher. Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to adjust the spare to the same resolution as my original, will I? |
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picked up a spare Inspiron 1545, but cannot reach same level of resolution as my original
John Abnarthy wrote:
I found and picked up a spare Inspiron 1545 today expecting it to have nearly the same characteristics as my original. However, I'm finding the maximum resolution slightly less on the spare than on my original and I'm wondering why? On mine, I have it set at 1600x900, but on the spare, the max seems to be 1366x768, and that's even after a bios update from a10 to the most recent a14. The bios shows nearly identical video info aside from native resolution differences as mentioned, plus on mine is listed a panel type of 15.6" HD+ but on the spare just 15.6" HD (no plus sign). I DID have to replace the LCD on mine one time and I'll bet that why the resolution is able to go higher. Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to adjust the spare to the same resolution as my original, will I? When replacing parts in a laptop, like the screen, brighter lamps can be used or those that consume less current and a different sized matrix for the panel of the screen. http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/...-1545/diagnose That says the video controller is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330. http://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-ATI/Mobili...n_HD_4330.html That says maximum resolution for that video controller is 2048x1536. Well, it could do that if the pixel geometry of the screen panel also supports it. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16834200077 That says the maximum (native) resolution is 1366x768. Well, looks like you got an original (non-HD+) laptop with its original screen rez. |
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picked up a spare Inspiron 1545, but cannot reach same level ofresolution as my original
On 04/01/2017 12:02 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
John Abnarthy wrote: I found and picked up a spare Inspiron 1545 today expecting it to have nearly the same characteristics as my original. However, I'm finding the maximum resolution slightly less on the spare than on my original and I'm wondering why? On mine, I have it set at 1600x900, but on the spare, the max seems to be 1366x768, and that's even after a bios update from a10 to the most recent a14. The bios shows nearly identical video info aside from native resolution differences as mentioned, plus on mine is listed a panel type of 15.6" HD+ but on the spare just 15.6" HD (no plus sign). I DID have to replace the LCD on mine one time and I'll bet that why the resolution is able to go higher. Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to adjust the spare to the same resolution as my original, will I? When replacing parts in a laptop, like the screen, brighter lamps can be used or those that consume less current and a different sized matrix for the panel of the screen. http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/...-1545/diagnose That says the video controller is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330. http://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-ATI/Mobili...n_HD_4330.html That says maximum resolution for that video controller is 2048x1536. Well, it could do that if the pixel geometry of the screen panel also supports it. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16834200077 That says the maximum (native) resolution is 1366x768. Well, looks like you got an original (non-HD+) laptop with its original screen rez. That's not great news, but I guess I can live with it. I tried "adding" the resolution desired in Ubuntu and it rejected it on this one (on my original, the new added resolution was no problem). The only other strange thing I'm noting is the battery affecting performance. If I swap batteries i.e. take the battery out of my original and replace it with the battery from the spare laptop, my original's performance slows down quite a bit, applications are much slower to open, etc. As soon as I swap batteries back to their native laptops, the problem goes away and they are back at their speeds. My only guess for the slower performance after battery swap is that the battery isn't original either. Although all the markings are "Dell", it says "Made in China" where my original battery doesn't say on the little white tag, just date of manufacture. Also "cell made in Japan/ further processed in China" and on my original laptop "battery cell made in Korea / assembled in China". So maybe it's an original battery in both cases, not sure, but I wonder why performance is so much worse when I simply switch the batteries between the laptops? Seems odd. Now if I keep them both plugged in, there is no sluggishness after the swaps. I guess the only positive thing of note is that I was able to simply install my back up hard drive from my original laptop in the spare and it started up and operated normally. The spare came with Win 10 on a 256 GB standard hard drive, and I just wanted to see if I could just install my original hard drive clone onto a separate hard drive (which is 500 GB), plug it in and see if it would work. I double checked first to see how close laptop configurations were and I figured the spare would work this way and it did. So some interesting comparisons here for sure. The laptops definitely aren't quite identical. |
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picked up a spare Inspiron 1545, but cannot reach same level of resolution as my original
John Abnarthy wrote:
The only other strange thing I'm noting is the battery affecting performance. If I swap batteries i.e. take the battery out of my original and replace it with the battery from the spare laptop, my original's performance slows down quite a bit, applications are much slower to open, etc. As soon as I swap batteries back to their native laptops, the problem goes away and they are back at their speeds. My only guess for the slower performance after battery swap is that the battery isn't original either. Although all the markings are "Dell", it says "Made in China" where my original battery doesn't say on the little white tag, just date of manufacture. Also "cell made in Japan/ further processed in China" and on my original laptop "battery cell made in Korea / assembled in China". So maybe it's an original battery in both cases, not sure, but I wonder why performance is so much worse when I simply switch the batteries between the laptops? Seems odd. Now if I keep them both plugged in, there is no sluggishness after the swaps. Laptop batteries only last 3 years. You bought a used laptop. The owner probably figured they wanted a newer and faster laptop and wasn't going to waste money on getting a battery for their old one they wouldn't use and were getting rid of, anyway. Keeping the laptop plugged in means the battery isn't being used to supply power to the laptop. Get a new battery for the used laptop that you just bought. Batteries are often required when buying used laptops. If batteries are not replaceable in a notebook or tablet, don't buy a used one. Almost all lithium batteries, maybe all of them, are made in China. http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/t...the-world.html I guess the only positive thing of note is that I was able to simply install my back up hard drive from my original laptop in the spare and it started up and operated normally. The spare came with Win 10 on a 256 GB standard hard drive, and I just wanted to see if I could just install my original hard drive clone onto a separate hard drive (which is 500 GB), plug it in and see if it would work. I double checked first to see how close laptop configurations were and I figured the spare would work this way and it did. What OS, if any, came on the used laptop that you bought? If it wasn't Windows 10 (and the same edition) then you just violated the licensing for your instance of Windows 10. Naughty naughty. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Uset...10_English.htm However, since users rarely buy a new laptop to then wipe its drive to install a different OS, the used laptop very likely came with an OEM license. That means you took the OEM license from one laptop to use on another, so that one license is deployed to two devices. You would have to find the OEMer's (Dell's) EULA on the OS they image onto their laptops to find the terms and restrictions therein (good luck with that). |
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picked up a spare Inspiron 1545, but cannot reach same level ofresolution as my original
On 04/01/2017 03:36 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
John Abnarthy wrote: The only other strange thing I'm noting is the battery affecting performance. If I swap batteries i.e. take the battery out of my original and replace it with the battery from the spare laptop, my original's performance slows down quite a bit, applications are much slower to open, etc. As soon as I swap batteries back to their native laptops, the problem goes away and they are back at their speeds. My only guess for the slower performance after battery swap is that the battery isn't original either. Although all the markings are "Dell", it says "Made in China" where my original battery doesn't say on the little white tag, just date of manufacture. Also "cell made in Japan/ further processed in China" and on my original laptop "battery cell made in Korea / assembled in China". So maybe it's an original battery in both cases, not sure, but I wonder why performance is so much worse when I simply switch the batteries between the laptops? Seems odd. Now if I keep them both plugged in, there is no sluggishness after the swaps. Laptop batteries only last 3 years. You bought a used laptop. The owner probably figured they wanted a newer and faster laptop and wasn't going to waste money on getting a battery for their old one they wouldn't use and were getting rid of, anyway. Keeping the laptop plugged in means the battery isn't being used to supply power to the laptop. Get a new battery for the used laptop that you just bought. Batteries are often required when buying used laptops. If batteries are not replaceable in a notebook or tablet, don't buy a used one. I think I found the issue(s). Doesn't make sense to me, but I have actually heard of folks running into it. It seems that even though these are nearly identical laptops, I can't either swap batteries between them or even power supplies. If I do either, strange things start to happen. For one, the power light on the front starts blinking 4 red and then 1 white if I try not using the batteries in whatever laptop they originally came with. As long as I keep the batteries in their original laptop along with power supply, both run fine with or without power supplies. Almost all lithium batteries, maybe all of them, are made in China. http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/t...the-world.html I guess the only positive thing of note is that I was able to simply install my back up hard drive from my original laptop in the spare and it started up and operated normally. The spare came with Win 10 on a 256 GB standard hard drive, and I just wanted to see if I could just install my original hard drive clone onto a separate hard drive (which is 500 GB), plug it in and see if it would work. I double checked first to see how close laptop configurations were and I figured the spare would work this way and it did. What OS, if any, came on the used laptop that you bought? If it wasn't Windows 10 (and the same edition) then you just violated the licensing for your instance of Windows 10. Naughty naughty. The spare I bought had Win 10. Since I'm not ready to use it, I just pulled the drive and replaced it with a clone of the drive in my original laptop. That drive has dual boot with either Win 7 or Ubuntu selection at boot up. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Uset...10_English.htm However, since users rarely buy a new laptop to then wipe its drive to install a different OS, the used laptop very likely came with an OEM license. That means you took the OEM license from one laptop to use on another, so that one license is deployed to two devices. You would have to find the OEMer's (Dell's) EULA on the OS they image onto their laptops to find the terms and restrictions therein (good luck with that). Luckily, I don't have Win 10 issues yet to deal with, but I suppose the day will come one day soon. For now, I'm happy with what I have as long as I no longer try to swap out batteries or power supplies between the two laptops. |
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picked up a spare Inspiron 1545, but cannot reach same level of resolution as my original
John Abnarthy wrote:
I think I found the issue(s). Doesn't make sense to me, but I have actually heard of folks running into it. It seems that even though these are nearly identical laptops, I can't either swap batteries between them or even power supplies. The batteries are not just encapsulated chemical packs. They also contain logic. It's possible the battery is coded for use within a range of models or within a family of models. I haven't run into this but then I always buy replacement batteries that stipulate they are for the laptop/notebook for I am buying them. The spare I bought had Win 10. Since I'm not ready to use it, I just pulled the drive and replaced it with a clone of the drive in my original laptop. That drive has dual boot with either Win 7 or Ubuntu selection at boot up. Then you are violating the Windows 7 EULA. You know better. You only get one license to use on one computer. If it is a retail license (not likely with laptops) then you can move the license to another computer but then you can no longer use it on the prior computer. Since it is likely an OEM/System Builder license, you aren't allowed to move it anywhere after having installed it. The OEM license sticks to the first computer on which it gets installed. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms Just pick the OS and version of the one you are copying/cloning to your 2nd computer (the used one that you just got). Moving an HDD between computers does not make the 2nd one the same device as the first one from which you yanked the HDD. Putting a cloned drive into your 2nd computer means you are duplicating the OS license but you only have one license so you are violating the EULA. |
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picked up a spare Inspiron 1545, but cannot reach same level ofresolution as my original
On 04/01/2017 10:27 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
John Abnarthy wrote: I think I found the issue(s). Doesn't make sense to me, but I have actually heard of folks running into it. It seems that even though these are nearly identical laptops, I can't either swap batteries between them or even power supplies. The batteries are not just encapsulated chemical packs. They also contain logic. It's possible the battery is coded for use within a range of models or within a family of models. I haven't run into this but then I always buy replacement batteries that stipulate they are for the laptop/notebook for I am buying them. The spare I bought had Win 10. Since I'm not ready to use it, I just pulled the drive and replaced it with a clone of the drive in my original laptop. That drive has dual boot with either Win 7 or Ubuntu selection at boot up. Then you are violating the Windows 7 EULA. You know better. You only get one license to use on one computer. If it is a retail license (not likely with laptops) then you can move the license to another computer but then you can no longer use it on the prior computer. Since it is likely an OEM/System Builder license, you aren't allowed to move it anywhere after having installed it. The OEM license sticks to the first computer on which it gets installed. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms Just pick the OS and version of the one you are copying/cloning to your 2nd computer (the used one that you just got). Moving an HDD between computers does not make the 2nd one the same device as the first one from which you yanked the HDD. Putting a cloned drive into your 2nd computer means you are duplicating the OS license but you only have one license so you are violating the EULA. You make this sound like a huge issue. If it is, it is no problem for me to ditch 7 altogether and just use Ubuntu on each machine. Windows hasn't touched the Internet in years on ANY of my Win machines and I don't plan to have it do so in the future. Besides, I hardly use Win anyway and I do have a desktop (not a clone of anything) where Win 7 is in full force with all the programs I need. If any of the Linux distros ever covered the range and/or quality of programs available in Win, I'd stop using Win altogether. Ubuntu takes a good stab at it, but still falls pretty short in some areas, hence the need for still keeping Win around. |
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picked up a spare Inspiron 1545, but cannot reach same level of resolution as my original
John Abnarthy wrote:
You make this sound like a huge issue. If it is, it is no problem for me to ditch 7 altogether and just use Ubuntu on each machine. Windows hasn't touched the Internet in years on ANY of my Win machines and I don't plan to have it do so in the future. Besides, I hardly use Win anyway and I do have a desktop (not a clone of anything) where Win 7 is in full force with all the programs I need. If any of the Linux distros ever covered the range and/or quality of programs available in Win, I'd stop using Win altogether. Ubuntu takes a good stab at it, but still falls pretty short in some areas, hence the need for still keeping Win around. Threatening to discontinue use of Windows, any version and edition, or citing little use of Windows or not connecting the hosts to the Internet are not excuses regarding licensing violation. If you don't want to use Windows then don't install a pirated copy of it. Go to Linux, as you said. You still have the one Windows 7 host running a valid license if you need to do something under Windows. So far, I've decided I'm not going to Windows 10. I never went to Windows 8. I'm back on Windows 7. If Microsoft doesn't fix a lot of untoward behaviors in Windows 10, especially by letting me control updates rather than simply postpone them along with making them independent (so I can get the updates I want without getting forced to get the earlier non-applicable updates), then I will also be going to Linux. Other than video games (Linux pales by comparison), there are no apps on Windows that I use that do not have an equivalent or substitute for Linux. My guess, at this point but still tentative, is that I'll end up going to Mint and drop Windows altogether. I can sacrifice the loss of Windows video games. The stealth genre has waned severely in video games (most times they haven't a clue what is stealth) and I'm not a hyperactive squirt-all-ammo-at-everything player. Trying to find a good stealth video game for Windows (that I haven't already played to death) is like trying to find video games for Linux: poor selection. |
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