loss of a complete display and sound

[pjcri...@aol.com]

I have a compaq 1540 armada. I have a display that has a black border
approx. 2"entirely around the active screen. This obviously limits my
display. I have gone into the control panel and the display but the
settings only have either 16 colors or monochrome and I cannot adust the
pixels because it is not lite up. I have run various diagnostic test from
Norton and PCworld and BCM but they give me no ideas of what's wrong with
the display or the sound. I have downloaded new drivers from compaq but
this still dosen't change the screen, pixel setting or the sound.

I have also lost any sound on my laptop Pentium 150 with 80 megs of ram.
Any suggestions?

tks; Pete
pete

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[Barry Watzman]

You almost certainly have the wrong drivers and configuration, no matter what
you might think. It sounds like your computer is centering a 640x480 image
(standard 16 color VGA) in an 800 x 600 screen (or perhaps even a 1024 x 768
screen). It is probably not a hardware problem (although I can't say that
conclusively). Beyond that, I can't help much.

[John]

Go to the Compaq Downloadable page for your unit:

http://www.compaq.com/support/files/portables/us/2_50.html

It has all the drivers and more for your unit.
John

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