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How to disable the OSD on my NEC LCD monitor??? Please help!
MonMotha:
I think you're in way over your head, here. You're not going to get any response through the front door. ST just plain doesn't care about you, especially for a chip that's old enough to have had the company bought out (and is probably EOL). It's very unlikely you're going to get that software.
It's probably just some crummy Visual Basic stuff, anyway, designed to "improve time to market" and crap like that. I've worked with stuff like this before: I almost never use their crummy dev tools. They're more hassle than they're worth. Your best bet is probably to dump the EEPROM that's on the board, locate the OSD data, and modify it to basically be invisible. You may also have luck patching the firmware to simply never display the OSD in that case. It's probably a 1 byte change - the challenge is figuring out which byte :)
If you're uncomfortable with the process involved to do what I just outlined, you should probably just live with it. It's not a terribly complicated process, but it's tedious. One can easily waste days reverse engineering things like this, even if you're good at it.
It's not like it's a big deal. You can make it so that you'll only get that mode change during the bootup of the PC. Just scale your Pac-Man, etc. to desktop res. It's not like you can get native arcade resolutions on that LCD, anyway.
If you do want to make it so you can switch between them, there are actually some standard I2C ROMs out there that have separate memory spaces depending on how you tie one of the address pins. That would be perfect for this application.
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