Ignore or bypass EDID?

For those that don't know, EDID is an initial communication between your monitor and graphics card on boot, so the graphics card knows what it is capable of.

I have a GeForce 4 card, and I know in Linux there's an option to "Ignore EDID ". In this way, I can set parameters for screen resolution, bit depth, and vertical and horizontal refresh rate in the monitor's config file, and it will use these rather than what the monitor's EDID specifies.

I'm looking to do the equivalent thing in Windows 2000. Is there a way to do this? I know there are monitor settings in the Registry file, and thought maybe I could remove all but one default setting and it would automatically boot to that, although there is no mention of horizontal refresh in there.

Any ideas?

 

This Article deals with changing/adding the registry values (including horizontal refresh rate) as you want to but only for 95/98. ME uses the same values and, at a guess, I suspect the NT systems may as well.

 

Thanks a bunch, Newt, that seems like what looking for -- I'll give it a shot.

 

I'm looking, but I don't have a "class" subsection under \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\

what I do have there is an "nv" folder with settings for the device that are set up differently, without refresh horizontal refresh rate (although the article does mention in the first paragraph it applies to Windows 2000 as well).

Can I create the registry entries that correspond to what the article says, or would that be a bad thing...?