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Thread ID: 39902 2003-11-21 07:16:00 Laptop screen not working properly. Caesius (3758) Press F1
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193643 2003-11-21 07:16:00 I have a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop. The PCMCIA card slot was broken, so I thought I'd do some DIY repair work, after dismantiling the whole thing and not being able to do anything to the PCMCIA slot, I thought I'd better put it back together. Now when Windows is booting up AND when I enter a full-screen DOS prompt, the LCD display only displays about 10cm x 15cm of the screen in the middle. What have I done????

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| | ~~~ | | <-- Only the ~~~ area is displayed in DOS.
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P.S. I completely disconected the LCD display to. (out of curiousity...)

Thanks for any help.
Caesius (3758)
193644 2003-11-21 07:17:00 ^^^

Sorry about the diagram above, it mustv'e lost the formatting when I posted it. :)
Caesius (3758)
193645 2003-11-21 07:37:00 My laptop displays in that manner by design. For DOS and Windows XP booting screens.

The DOS screen is 640 x 480 resolution, the LCD is 1024 x 768.
It doesn't scale up the DOS screen, as merging pixels in an LCD is not a nice thing to see.

What is the native resolution of the LCD?
godfather (25)
193646 2003-11-21 09:21:00 The screen was working perfectly before, showing DOS and bootup sequence in full-screen. I think the "native reso" is 1024 x 768. Caesius (3758)
193647 2003-11-21 09:32:00 See the manual or the web. There should be a combination of a hot key, usually with the 'Fn' key to resize the screen to fullsize but the words would be blurry thou. Similarly what u do it via DOS box in windows going to properties then choosing full screen.... nomad (3693)
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