Presario 1200 Display Frame
 

All right, I have a Presario 12xl526. Celeron 733, 320MB RAM.
Origionally came with ME. ME was riddled with problems, so it was
decided to format and reinstall. I figured I would try XP, see if the
system could handel it. It did pretty good, except for 1 problem, a 1
inch frame around the display. Resolution is set at 800x600. Of course
this Computer was designed for 2k or ME so there are no Compaq drivers
available for XP. I search and tried some other ones, no luck. Ok,
so now back to the begining. I am currently installing 2k and while
it is still installing, I have the same problem, a 1 inch black frame
around the 800x600 display. It is actually 1 inch on the top and
bottom, and about 1/4 inch on each side, looks like I am watching a
DVD in Widescreen format. I tried pressing Fn+T, but that didn't
work. There are no options in the limited BIOS to change.

Any help here would be greatly appricated, this Laptop should work in
full screen mode.

PS.

When ME was installed, it did the "widescreen" thing while it booted,
but as soon as the OS was up it went to fullscreen.

TIA

Jeremy

Isn't the native screen resolution 1024x768? Laptops don't handle other
resolutions and your symptom is a resolution under the optimum one.

Tom
"the yeti" wrote in message
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All right, I have a Presario 12xl526. Celeron 733, 320MB RAM.
Origionally came with ME. ME was riddled with problems, so it was
decided to format and reinstall. I figured I would try XP, see if the
system could handel it. It did pretty good, except for 1 problem, a 1
inch frame around the display. Resolution is set at 800x600. Of course
this Computer was designed for 2k or ME so there are no Compaq drivers
available for XP. I search and tried some other ones, no luck. Ok,
so now back to the begining. I am currently installing 2k and while
it is still installing, I have the same problem, a 1 inch black frame
around the 800x600 display. It is actually 1 inch on the top and
bottom, and about 1/4 inch on each side, looks like I am watching a
DVD in Widescreen format. I tried pressing Fn+T, but that didn't
work. There are no options in the limited BIOS to change.

Any help here would be greatly appricated, this Laptop should work in
full screen mode.

PS.

When ME was installed, it did the "widescreen" thing while it booted,
but as soon as the OS was up it went to fullscreen.

TIA

Jeremy

FWIW, I have a 12XL300 that originally ran ME and now has 2K running fine at
800x600 with the Trident Cyberblade i1, the driver is trid3dm.sys, version
5.00.2185.32 from MS. Try the Win 2K update site for the appropriate driver
for the XL526.

Tom

"Tom Scales" wrote in message
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Isn't the native screen resolution 1024x768? Laptops don't handle other
resolutions and your symptom is a resolution under the optimum one.

Tom
"the yeti" wrote in message
om...
All right, I have a Presario 12xl526. Celeron 733, 320MB RAM.
Origionally came with ME. ME was riddled with problems, so it was
decided to format and reinstall. I figured I would try XP, see if the
system could handel it. It did pretty good, except for 1 problem, a 1
inch frame around the display. Resolution is set at 800x600. Of course
this Computer was designed for 2k or ME so there are no Compaq drivers
available for XP. I search and tried some other ones, no luck. Ok,
so now back to the begining. I am currently installing 2k and while
it is still installing, I have the same problem, a 1 inch black frame
around the 800x600 display. It is actually 1 inch on the top and
bottom, and about 1/4 inch on each side, looks like I am watching a
DVD in Widescreen format. I tried pressing Fn+T, but that didn't
work. There are no options in the limited BIOS to change.

Any help here would be greatly appricated, this Laptop should work in
full screen mode.

PS.

When ME was installed, it did the "widescreen" thing while it booted,
but as soon as the OS was up it went to fullscreen.

TIA

Jeremy

Yeah, I am feeling a bit stupid. The native resolution is 1024x768,
and 800x600 causes the "widescreen" It's weird, and I didn't catch it
right away, because ME was running at 800x600, but full screen. For
whatever reason XP didn't have the refresh rate right in the XP
driver, so It wouldnt let me go to that resolution, but 2k is fine.

Pardon my ignorance

Yeah, I am feeling a bit stupid. The native resolution is 1024x768,
and 800x600 causes the "widescreen" It's weird, and I didn't catch it
right away, because ME was running at 800x600, but full screen. For
whatever reason XP didn't have the refresh rate right in the XP
driver, so It wouldnt let me go to that resolution, but 2k is fine.

Pardon my ignorance

Just glad it works !

Tom
"the yeti" wrote in message
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Yeah, I am feeling a bit stupid. The native resolution is 1024x768,
and 800x600 causes the "widescreen" It's weird, and I didn't catch it
right away, because ME was running at 800x600, but full screen. For
whatever reason XP didn't have the refresh rate right in the XP
driver, so It wouldnt let me go to that resolution, but 2k is fine.

Pardon my ignorance

update video driver

"the yeti" wrote in message
om...
All right, I have a Presario 12xl526. Celeron 733, 320MB RAM.
Origionally came with ME. ME was riddled with problems, so it was
decided to format and reinstall. I figured I would try XP, see if the
system could handel it. It did pretty good, except for 1 problem, a 1
inch frame around the display. Resolution is set at 800x600. Of course
this Computer was designed for 2k or ME so there are no Compaq drivers
available for XP. I search and tried some other ones, no luck. Ok,
so now back to the begining. I am currently installing 2k and while
it is still installing, I have the same problem, a 1 inch black frame
around the 800x600 display. It is actually 1 inch on the top and
bottom, and about 1/4 inch on each side, looks like I am watching a
DVD in Widescreen format. I tried pressing Fn+T, but that didn't
work. There are no options in the limited BIOS to change.

Any help here would be greatly appricated, this Laptop should work in
full screen mode.

PS.

When ME was installed, it did the "widescreen" thing while it booted,
but as soon as the OS was up it went to fullscreen.

TIA

Jeremy