Re: Why is my screen so small?

MRSCUCCH wrote:
Why does my screen reduce so small when coming out of sleep mode?
Its got like a 2" black border around the whole thing.

Shenan Stanley wrote:
Not enough information.
Have you tried updating your video card driver from the
manufacturer of said video card?

MRSCUCCH wrote:
No I have not tried that. This system is like 5 years old and has
never had a problem before. It just stated doing this a couple days
ago when it wakes up from going into "stand by" mode... it comes
back with the desktop screen much smaller and that border all
around it.

I have no clue how to update my video card.

You must know what vide card you have. Look on your receipt/invoice for
the computer - ask the people you bought the system from, open it up and
look, etc.

There are applications out there that can identify what hardware you have,
but I think they all depend on a properly installed system - as I think they
pull the information from the registry. Perhaps they do not - so I will
recommend you try one..

Belarc Advisor
http://belarc.com/free_download.html

Once you know what you have, what next? Go get the latest driver for your
hardware/OS from the manufacturer's web page. For example, let's say you
have an NVidia chipset video card or ATI video card.....

NVidia Video Card Drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

ATI Video Card Drivers
http://www.atitech.com/support/driver.html

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