Why is my blue start screen scrunched smaller than screen size?
David Walden-Berg
smaller than my screen size. The full blue screen appears, but the
text at the very top is compacted or reduced and distorted as if the
the blue scrren is being crushed smaller than the screen size, and
there's half an inch of black space on all sides of the blue space.
Any ideas?
TIA,
David Walden-Berg
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Mark Anderson
>On my Toshiba Tecra laptop, my blue startup screen is scrunched
>smaller than my screen size. The full blue screen appears, but the
>text at the very top is compacted or reduced and distorted as if the
>the blue scrren is being crushed smaller than the screen size, and
>there's half an inch of black space on all sides of the blue space.
Forgive my rudeness, but isn't there something vaguely amusing about a
Windows user posting a question about how best to configure the Blue Screen
of Death?
Makes me smile, anyway.
Cheers
Mark
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David Walden-Berg wrote in message <3697038c...@news.hooked.net>...
>On my Toshiba Tecra laptop, my blue startup screen is scrunched
>smaller than my screen size. The full blue screen appears, but the
>text at the very top is compacted or reduced and distorted as if the
>the blue scrren is being crushed smaller than the screen size, and
>there's half an inch of black space on all sides of the blue space.
>
Roger J.Hamlett
>
> On my Toshiba Tecra laptop, my blue startup screen is scrunched
> smaller than my screen size. The full blue screen appears, but the
> text at the very top is compacted or reduced and distorted as if
the
> the blue scrren is being crushed smaller than the screen size, and
> there's half an inch of black space on all sides of the blue space.
>
> Any ideas?
have the capability to 'stretch' such images to fill the entire
screen, but some machines do not do this. It sounds as though yours
is of the latter type. If your LCD is 800*600 (Your size description
sounds right for this), the image will be at 0.8 of it's normal size.
Genrally machines with 800*600 LCD's tend not to bother, since
'stretching' the image on an LCD, which results in some pixels having
to be doubled to fill the space, produces more distortion, than the
loss of size warrants. On machines with 1024*768 LCD's, where the
screen would only be 0.625 of it's normal size, the 'balance' shifts
in favour of stretching the image. Hence laptops that support these
larger screen sizes, normally have the 'stretch' option available
(often as a BIOS setting), whilst ones that support only the 800*600
displays tend not to have it.
Best Wishes
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Frank Sexton
adjust and "remember" sizing for various monitor modes (i.e. 640x480,
800x600, 1024x768 etc). During boot, NT changes modes about three times.
Your only recourse is to attempt to (very speedily) set the monitor for that
particular mode before it switches to the next. Then, your monitor will
"remember" the correct setting as NT switches modes.
-Frank
David Walden-Berg <sha...@hooked.net> wrote in message
news:3697038c...@news.hooked.net...
>On my Toshiba Tecra laptop, my blue startup screen is scrunched
>smaller than my screen size. The full blue screen appears, but the
>text at the very top is compacted or reduced and distorted as if the
>the blue scrren is being crushed smaller than the screen size, and
>there's half an inch of black space on all sides of the blue space.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>TIA,
>
>David Walden-Berg
>sha...@hooked.net
>
>
David Walden-Berg
<ma...@drunkenbastards.org> wrote:
>David Walden-Berg wrote in message <3697038c...@news.hooked.net>...
>>On my Toshiba Tecra laptop, my blue startup screen is scrunched
>>smaller than my screen size. The full blue screen appears, but the
>>text at the very top is compacted or reduced and distorted as if the
>>the blue scrren is being crushed smaller than the screen size, and
>>there's half an inch of black space on all sides of the blue space.
>
>
>Forgive my rudeness, but isn't there something vaguely amusing about a
>Windows user posting a question about how best to configure the Blue Screen
>of Death?
>
>Makes me smile, anyway.
>
>Cheers
>
>Mark
Actually, it's not rudeness, it's more blindness. Both the subject
and the text clearly state I'm talking about the startup screen, not
the blue screen of death. My amusement at your smarm is less than
vague.
Makes me roll my eyes and shake my head, anyway.
Cheers
David
Mark Anderson
>Actually, it's not rudeness, it's more blindness. Both the subject
>and the text clearly state I'm talking about the startup screen, not
>the blue screen of death. My amusement at your smarm is less than
>vague.
>
>Makes me roll my eyes and shake my head, anyway.
>
>Cheers
>
>David
Smart-arse
(insert smiley if you like)
Cheers
Mark
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