Many sites and articles on getting widescreen monitors to work on notebooks in their native resolution mention something called the "Mode Removal Table" in the Video BIOS which specifically prevents certain video modes:
- http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=947830
- http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=61326
- http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-xps-studio-xps/313573-xps-m1330-hdmi-hdmi-tv-issue-2.html
- http://forums.entechtaiwan.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=3363.0
Does such a thing really exist? The fix worked for me but I wanted to find out if I can read, modify, or work around this table. However I can't find any mention of it in the various VESA standards. Perhaps it actually goes by some other more cryptic name?