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re: resolution problem Monday, November 11, 2002 at 7:44 pm Posted by czyxzy (594 messages posted) It seems you have something going on besides what it appears to be. A laptop will have a native screen resolution. Unless you've got a 20" screen, the native resolution should be 1024x768. A good 16" LCD might give you 1280x1024. Anything smaller than the native resolution should give you ugly results. In your case, you say you were running at 1600x1200. I'll assume that's true. You must have screen controls that control the height and width. Select 1024x768. Then use the controls to stretch the screen to the edges. On Monday, November 11, 2002 at 7:26 pm, Phesto wrote: >I'm having a problem with changing the resolution on my dell inspiron 8000 laptop. >Instead of changing the resolution when i try to go lower than 1600 x 1200 it will >change the desktop size. So...in other words when i go to 1024 X 768 the screen will >shrink and i'm left with a small window with a big black border. I can not find anyway >to change this. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. >Phesto [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: resolution problem Monday, November 11, 2002 at 7:44 pm Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted) Try using your monitor(screen) settings to fit. On Monday, November 11, 2002 at 7:26 pm, Phesto wrote: >I'm having a problem with changing the resolution on my dell inspiron 8000 laptop. >Instead of changing the resolution when i try to go lower than 1600 x 1200 it will >change the desktop size. So...in other words when i go to 1024 X 768 the screen will >shrink and i'm left with a small window with a big black border. I can not find anyway >to change this. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. >Phesto [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: resolution problem Monday, November 11, 2002 at 8:14 pm Posted by Phesto (2 messages posted) The laptop i have doesn't have the adjustments like a normal CRT monitor...i can not move or stretch the screen to fit. On Monday, November 11, 2002 at 7:44 pm, Zeb wrote: >It seems you have something going on besides what it appears to be. A laptop will >have a native screen resolution. Unless you've got a 20" screen, the native resolution >should be 1024x768. A good 16" LCD might give you 1280x1024. Anything smaller than >the native resolution should give you ugly results. In your case, you say you were >running at 1600x1200. I'll assume that's true. You must have screen controls that >control the height and width. Select 1024x768. Then use the controls to stretch the >screen to the edges. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: resolution problem Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 8:44 am Posted by Ricer46 (22013 messages posted) LCD displays are designed to run at a specific resolution. There have been several articles written on the subject. You are supposed to buy the resolution you want to use. I've never owned one, or a laptop, but I've done a considerable amount of reading on the subject since I was considering a purchase a few years ago. A CRT can interpolate pixels while an LCD does not do that very well. And of course you can't change the screen size the way you can on a CRT, because the display is completely digital, there's no scan rate to change, and no analog adjustments that can be used to change magnification. Your only hope (I confess ignorance on this one) is the nVidia driver. On the desktop version there is a screen mag and centering adjustment - if there is not one for the laptop version, then you have few choices 1600x1200 as you bought it, or 1600x1200 with the outer pixels turned off. On Monday, November 11, 2002 at 8:14 pm, phesto wrote: >The laptop i have doesn't have the adjustments like a normal CRT monitor...i can >not move or stretch the screen to fit. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: resolution problem Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 2:37 pm Posted by Sunny Han (1 messages posted) it does work on Dells, the hardware screen size change, however, is not built into the screen as a button. rather, after you change the resolution, press function f-7 to display screen size changes. refit the screen and you're set. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman (Thanks to Justin H.) On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 8:44 am, Ricer46 wrote: >LCD displays are designed to run at a specific resolution. There have been several >articles written on the subject. You are supposed to buy the resolution you want >to use. I've never owned one, or a laptop, but I've done a considerable amount of >reading on the subject since I was considering a purchase a few years ago. A CRT >can interpolate pixels while an LCD does not do that very well. And of course you >can't change the screen size the way you can on a CRT, because the display is completely >digital, there's no scan rate to change, and no analog adjustments that can be used >to change magnification. Your only hope (I confess ignorance on this one) is the >nVidia driver. On the desktop version there is a screen mag and centering adjustment >- if there is not one for the laptop version, then you have few choices 1600x1200 >as you bought it, or 1600x1200 with the outer pixels turned off. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: resolution problem Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 4:25 am Posted by BillyGates (1 messages posted) Thank You Sunny Han and Justin H. ! Worked like a charm.. just remember in XP(n' 2000) to enable Clear Type (right click an empty space on the desktop, choose 'Properties' from the popup menu, then in the popup 'Display Properties' window choose the 'Appearance' tab --> click the 'Effects' button, select the 2nd checkbox from the top, click the dropdown button to the right of the text box that displays 'Standard', select 'Clear Type' and, finally, click either the 'Apply' or 'OK' buttons. On Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 2:37 pm, Sunny Han wrote: >it does work on Dells, the hardware screen size change, however, is not built into >the screen as a button. rather, after you change the resolution, press function f-7 >to display screen size changes. refit the screen and you're set. > >Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman > >(Thanks to Justin H.) > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: resolution problem Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 9:21 am Posted by Catty (1 messages posted) I can't thank you enough!!! I was having the exact same problem with a Dell Inspiron 8000 and pressing Fn and F7 worked! Thank you! On Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 2:37 pm, Sunny Han wrote: >it does work on Dells, the hardware screen size change, however, is not built into >the screen as a button. rather, after you change the resolution, press function f-7 >to display screen size changes. refit the screen and you're set. > >Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman > >(Thanks to Justin H.) > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: resolution problem Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 4:24 pm Posted by Brian (1 messages posted) Thank you so much! The fn+f7 trick worked perfectly :) On Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 2:37 pm, Sunny Han wrote: >it does work on Dells, the hardware screen size change, however, is not built into >the screen as a button. rather, after you change the resolution, press function f-7 >to display screen size changes. refit the screen and you're set. > >Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman > >(Thanks to Justin H.) > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: resolution problem Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 12:21 pm Posted by PaulaJava (14 messages posted) Wahoo!!! I've been stumped on this for weeks! I updated the BIOS, the Video BIOS, chipset, and used Dell nVidia driver from their website. This was the trick! Sunny Han, you da bomb! On Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 2:37 pm, Sunny Han wrote: >it does work on Dells, the hardware screen size change, however, is not built into >the screen as a button. rather, after you change the resolution, press function f-7 >to display screen size changes. refit the screen and you're set. > >Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman > >(Thanks to Justin H.) > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: resolution problem Friday, March 17, 2006 at 6:00 am Posted by Judith Bernard (3 messages posted) I've got the same problem, but how do you "refit the screen size"? I have a Dell c810 Latitude running the nVidia GeForce2 Go card and I upgraded the card (my mistake). Now whenever I close the lid to the laptop and then re-open it, I've got the little desktop sitting in the middle of large black border. Pressing the fn+f7 does not fix it, I have to restart the laptop to fix it, anyone know what's going on? my resolution settings are at 1024x768 with the advanced options for "increase dpi to 120%" set. Everything works fine until I close the darn lid. And while I'm at it, what the heck is the fn+f8 key for the one that says "crt/lcd" when I press it I don't notice any difference. Thanks. On Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 2:37 pm, Sunny Han wrote: >it does work on Dells, the hardware screen size change, however, is not built into >the screen as a button. rather, after you change the resolution, press function f-7 >to display screen size changes. refit the screen and you're set. > >Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman > >(Thanks to Justin H.) > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Resolution to "resolution problem" Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 7:40 am Posted by Jon Plank (1 messages posted) I encountered the same thing... Looked in the BIOS to see if there was a stretch function, but none existed. I later found that there was a "Stretch Function" in: Display Properties - Settings - Advanced - "GeForce2 Go" tab - A sub menu pops out of the side, and you need to click on "Flat Panel Display" - you have a few options, but choose "Use Display Adapter Scaling" This should allow you to correct the scaling issue, and use the whole screen. It may be fussy, but it is scaled. Good Luck! [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum