Intel® 845G VBIOS Chipset
11.3 Production Version
VBIOS Release Notes


August 15, 2002

 

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NOTICE: Intel® 845G Chipset VBIOS  may contain design defects or errors described as "known issues" which may cause the product to deviate from expected performance. Current characterized known issues are documented in this update.

 

Revision History


 

Date Revision Version Number Platform Draft/Changes
August 15, 2002 11.3 Production Version 2686 Intel® 845G/GL/GE Chipset Updated Features and Resolved Issues since 11.3 Production Candidate 1.0
August 1, 2002 11.3 Production Candidate 1.0 2686 Intel® 845G/GL/GE Chipset Updated Features and Resolved Issues since 11.3 Beta Candidate 7.0
July 31, 2002 11.3 Beta Candidate 7.0 2686 Intel® 845G/GL/GE Chipset Updated Features and Resolved Issues since 11.3 Beta Candidate 6.0
July 26, 2002 11.3 Beta Candidate 6.0 2686 Intel® 845G/GL/GE Chipset Updated Features and Resolved Issues since 11.3 Beta Candidate 5.0
July 18, 2002 11.3 Beta Candidate 5.0 2678 Intel® 845G/GL/GE Chipset Updated Features and Resolved Issues since 11.3 Beta Candidate 4.0
July 11, 2002 11.3 Beta Candidate 4.0 2674 Intel® 845G/GL/GE Chipset Updated Features and Resolved Issues since 11.3 Beta Candidate 3.0
July 1, 2002 11.3 Beta Candidate 3.0 2671 Intel® 845G/GL/GE Chipset Updated Features and Resolved Issues since 11.3 Beta Candidate 2.0
June 27, 2002 11.3 Beta Candidate 2.0 2662 Intel® 845G/GL/GE Chipset Updated Features and Resolved Issues since 11.3 Beta Candidate 1.0
June 21, 2002 11.3 Beta Candidate 1.0 2658 Intel® 845G/GL/GE Chipset Updated Features and Resolved Issues since 11.3 Baseline

 

11.3 Production Version Features Added In 2686 VBIOS
RCR N/A      
11.3 Production Version Resolved Issues In 2686 VBIOS
Tibet Bug 988984 Video BIOS System blue screen after installing GFX driver 2941 Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 992089 Video BIOS Dos Box text corrupted in full screen at 1600x1200x16,32bpp & higher Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 993095 Video BIOS vBIOS: Attaching an external Digital Flat Panel the system will disable the CRT. Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 993462 Video BIOS BDG_SVGFX: DVOC display incorrect for booting into 12x10 centered mode DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 994055 Video BIOS BDG_SVGFX: VGA Fast Arbiter is being disabled for SDR 133 DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 994121 Video BIOS System Hangs with wrong PROM image Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 994875 Video BIOS VBIOS: Elpin Part 2 test 2 fails in 360x400 and 720x400 modes DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 994945 Video BIOS BDG_CV: No internal video when DDR200 & FSB 533 selected DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 996090 Video BIOS VBios: VBE tests "H scrolling" and "V scrolling" run very slow DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 997318 Video BIOS BDG_CV: VESA tests & games corrupted with integrated graphics DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 997319 Video BIOS BDG_SVGFX: VGA 16x12 Centering mode has 9 dot disabled by default DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 997320 Video BIOS BDG_SVGFX: VGA Upper left non-doubled centering modes drop 1st column of pixels with chrontel 7009 ADD card DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 998959 Video BIOS VBios: When set to 15 bit or higher color, system skips "Palette Programming" and "Wide DAC" tests DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 999833 Video BIOS w-W2k--vBios 2537 sBIOS 019 driver installs properly, but it does not load/function after a reboot Microsoft Windows* 2000
Tibet Bug 1001611 Video BIOS System will not come out of S3 more then once Microsoft Windows* 2000
Tibet Bug 1002768 Video BIOS A0 GMBUS HW Glitch causes FS450 to fail Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1003057 Video BIOS System will not enter a low power state DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1003063 Video BIOS DVI Scaling problem DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1003282 Video BIOS Command prompt scroll is very slow in Japanese Win Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1003592 Video BIOS VBIOS VBT is not being downloaded Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1003722 Video BIOS BDG_SVGFX: VGA - DMU test suite fails when switching VGA to Hi-Res DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1004417 Video BIOS Slowly displaying 16 color DOS mode Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Tibet Bug 1004499 Video BIOS Valentini XP/2K i845g Slow scrolling in FS command line session Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1004749 Video BIOS BDG_CV: DOS TVout display fails after sleep states DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1004801 Video BIOS System hang after video re-post DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1005004 Video BIOS IGD (CRT + DVI), DVI does not display desktop after resuming from S1,S3, and S4 Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Tibet Bug 1005166 Video BIOS 1. Manufacturing test tool for DDC fail DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1006067 Video BIOS [AIM_BLOCK] Cannot change TV Standard during boot DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1006068 Video BIOS Opening a DOS prompt window in Win98 causes system to reboot Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Tibet Bug 1006166 Video BIOS After installing 2561, Command prompt causes system reboot Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Tibet Bug 1006830 Video BIOS w-DCT450a- w98 & wME -win9x GDI Character Mode Test 1 hangs the system Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1006831 Video BIOS w-DCT450a- w98 & wME -Open GL- Conformance ECP [-], Conformance ECP [1], Conformance ECP [2] hang the system Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1007379 Video BIOS VBIOS: VBE Interact Test1 and Test2 failures DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1007638 Video BIOS [AIM_BLOCK] No Display on LFP During POST DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1008100 Video BIOS Screen problems with DOS prompt in VGA mode Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Tibet Bug 1008211 Video BIOS I2C transfer failure using ADD cards DOS 6.22
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Tibet Bug 1009328 Video BIOS 2. No display in CRT during POST when non-ddc monitor is attached Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1009501 Video BIOS Screen blackout occurs at INT 10h(AX=4F15h) DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1009858 Video BIOS [AIM_BLOCK] Drivers are not enabling DVOB Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Tibet Bug 1010804 Video BIOS Garbage dot doesn't disappear when cursor blinks
Note: Resolved by Engineer. Verification in process.
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1010916 Video BIOS Green stripes through IBM splash from S4 resume Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1011203 Video BIOS If a DVI monitor and a CRT monitor are attached to a system, the CRT monitor will not have horizontal video sync. Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1011217 Video BIOS IBM T85D EFP display distorted with VBIOS 2579 DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1011462 Video BIOS DVI does not work on the 2548 Video BIOS DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1011501 Video BIOS VBIOS: 5F01h function does not report the correct VBIOS information DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1011530 Video BIOS BDG_CV: NT4 will not load BKD-G video driver with Mag DX15F and DX15Fe monitors Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Tibet Bug 1012234 Video BIOS Modes Removal Table not accepting wild cards DOS 6.22
Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1012280 Video BIOS Garbage on the screen with SBIOS GFX memory = 64MB Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1012316 Video BIOS 5F65h function does not turn the display back on DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1012752 Video BIOS VBIOS 5F01 function returns 0 for product on 830M and 845G DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1013149 Video BIOS Change Video Mode Microsoft Windows* 2000
Tibet Bug 1014959 Video BIOS [AIM BLOCKING] Invalid timings sent to DVI display when shutting down with DVI device enabled Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1015103 Video BIOS Function 5F64 00h, Set display devices, returns passed for several unsupported combinations DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1015342 Video BIOS VBE/SCI support is not implemented Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1015350 Video BIOS DDC1 monitor does not get detected Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1015695 Video BIOS 1503FP monitor does not show Dell splash screen on Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1015902 Video BIOS INT 10 (AX=4F15h) fails on FMV-DP97W3G 2002 DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1016146 Video BIOS 186423-Corruption in DOS full screen, JP Microsoft Windows* 2000
Tibet Bug 1016986 Video BIOS WinNT4.0 bluescreen after video driver install Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Tibet Bug 1016990 Video BIOS VBIOS aborts when Monitor Sends NAK while reading EDID
Note: Resolved by Engineer. Verification in process.
DOS 6.22
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1018101 Video BIOS VBE function 01h returns wrong NumberOfImagePages
Note: Resolved by Engineer. Verification in process.
DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1018261 Video BIOS WinXP OOBE resolution is 640x480 should be 800x600
Note: Resolved by Engineer. Verification in process.
Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1018599 Video BIOS Can't set DOS boot mode resolution via BMP
Note: Resolved by Engineer. Verification in process.
DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1018656 Video BIOS DDC does not work in DeviceManager Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1019204 Video BIOS BMP Dot Clock Table should be empty DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1019303 Video BIOS Write Protection failed on ADD card Microsoft Windows* 2000
Tibet Bug 1020167 Video BIOS [AIM_BLOCK] press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get siplay popout in dos FS Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Tibet Bug 1021199 Video BIOS DDC does not work in DeviceManager
Note: Resolved by Engineer. Verification in process.
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1022654 Video BIOS Chinese Win XP Pro Fullscreen Dosbox text not norm Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1027874 Video BIOS Int 10 DDC call returns 0s for EDID DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1029730 Video BIOS US DOS TEXT mode is not fitted to 1024x768 LFP. DOS 6.22
Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1029876 Video BIOS Flickering and Corruption during Windows Splash Screen with SXGA+ LFP Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1029924 Video BIOS vBIOS: VBE compliance test hang on H scroll at 16- and 32-bit @640x480 DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1031473 Video BIOS Cyclic flicker occurs on NS-2501 + LFP on Windows start up logo
Note: Resolved by Engineer. Verification in process.
DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1032494 Video BIOS [845G+CH7017] VBIOS 5F64-sub 0h function for screen switching doesnt work under windows. Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1032527 Video BIOS Television menu is always shown whatever TV connected or not ; 845GL and Chrontel 7017 configuration
Note: Resolved by Engineer. Verification in process.
Microsoft Windows* XP
11.3 Production Version Open Issues In 2686 VBIOS
Tibet Bug 980940 Video BIOS CV GFX - Jane's Longbow DOS game crashes with Invalid Opcode Error Message DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1008682 Video BIOS WinDVD Display Device Switching Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1011537 Video BIOS vBIOS clearing memory greater than frame-buffer  
Tibet Bug 1012012 Video BIOS I2C transfers not completing with GMBus DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1012259 Video BIOS Windows Protection Error Shown When OS Boots With Display Connected to Monitor Port B Microsoft Windows* 98
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1023229 Video BIOS Bit 5 of DVOFlags in SetDVOTimings call back has no affect Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Tibet Bug 1028371 Video BIOS 30 frames per second on 845G? Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Tibet Bug 1032294 Video BIOS [AIM_BLOCK] No Data Displayed on CRT and 7017 LVDS Screens Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1034614 Video BIOS 845GM Sometimes DOS prompt characters are broken when switching between Full DOS screen and DOS window by pressing alt+enter using 2658 VBIOS on LCD only. Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1034685 Video BIOS XGA DVI Monitor Boot Time to Splash Screen Increased DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1034899 Video BIOS A screen doesnt show with repeating a re-start with DVI monitor DOS 6.22
Tibet Bug 1035141 Video BIOS 845GM [845G+CH7017] LVDS no display when boot up DOS 6.22
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* XP
Tibet Bug 1035281 Video BIOS Both LVDS panel backlight and panle power are not turned off when system is shutdowned and rebooted. DOS 6.22
Microsoft Windows* 2000
Microsoft Windows* 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows* NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows* Millennium
Microsoft Windows* XP