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Old 11-04-2004, 03:04 PM   #7 (permalink)
spindles
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Originally Posted by bendsley
Not enough power? My Dell D800 does the same thing and I have a 128mb Nvidia card in there. Come on guys. Also, the BIOS isn't going to have anything to do with the screen not stretching. It's a software problem somewhere I'm sure, as my laptop does the same thing when loading games now.
It can be a bios thing. A quick google search turned up many pages that discuss using the bios to stretch a laptop's screen when the res chosen is lower than the res of the screen. For example:
http://www.examnotes.net/article1043224.html
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