Hi, I got a 5458 Inspiron with a shrunk screen. I can’t seem to find a fix for it, doesn’t matter the OS. Anyone knows how to fix this?
Best guess: EDID is broken. (Either inherently, or the ribbon to the display is damaged etc).
You can try cvt and xrandr --newmode (lots of reading for you to do!). It's safe, but it won't help if the screen can't be driven properly.
I believe I have a rootkit, bootkit, an botkit installed in the pc. When I try to update to the a01 firmware sometimes I takes it, after running r-kill an kdsskiller. And the bios info shows correct But the nvidia graphics don’t work. now when running r-kill it says r-kill has closed because it failed to load app data. After I reflash to a01 the bios menu shows the correct info but the screen still shrunk.
I do have bios clips to flash but I can’t find the dell Inspiron 5458 bios bin file. Can anyone provide it
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My suspicion was right, so far tdsskiller found 283.