lepa71 Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 I have Dell C840 with NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 32mb video card and I have a small issue when Windows XP startup screen appears. It will stretch to use all screen space, then I can push FN+F7 to make it smaller, but when I reboot screen goes back to full screen. Any help. Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn0wl Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 Read FAQ for saving screen aspect ratio. http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index.php?showtopic=6419 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 Why don't you run it at 1600x1200, should run fullscreen at all times without having to stretch. I would recommend that you try the 77.77 driver with Pieter's mod INF on your card to start out with. http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/index.php?dr...=1&type=1&dir=1 You could also try the 82.10 Dell driver with the INF that comes with it. On modern drivers you should not have any problems with the screen remembering your scaling options. Sn0wl you can't outdo me here, you weren't even around when that fix was discovered. In fact, what you are experiencing is just before xp finishes loading, correct? Try fn+F6 as well, there are lots of undocumented dell fn key things. Could try changing those from within the BIOS. I assume you have the A13 BIOS on that C840. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepa71 Posted April 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 (edited) I'm talking about First XP screen not the welcome screen. I already run @1600x1200. Bill, I'm using 84.21 driver with Pieter's modified INF as you recomended. I don't think that drivers are loaded at that moment yet. Edited April 16, 2006 by lepa71 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 Tried Fn+F6 yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabrice Roux Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 My previous Dell laptop had an option in the BIOS to Stretch to fit. Head over there and disable it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepa71 Posted April 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 What does Fn+F6 do? My F5 has A/A thing and F7 has font Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 Fn+F6 should turn scaling on and off from the pre-windows standpoint. There is no option in the C840/I8200/M50 BIOS for scaling, you can spend all day looking but it is not there. Like I said there are many hidden fn commands, even one I just discovered that finally returned fan control to my BIOS (long story). After pressing the 15 keys or so my fans went wonky and stuff and I8k fangui thought the temp was 85, but I think that was wrong. All was fixed when I restarted. (had to do button presses to fix it, BIOS was refusing to take back control of fans) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepa71 Posted April 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2006 I tried Fn+F6 and it didn't work. The problem is that bios screen is small, it is only windows xp startup screen is scaled up. Any more help? I was pushin g Fn+F6 during bios screen. Is that right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepa71 Posted April 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2006 Any help???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 So when the splash screen appears it is small? as well as the BIOS screen but the XP loading screen is scaled? :) Have you tried any other Fn+F keys? F4, F9, F6, F7, F11 and F12..... *ponders...* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepa71 Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 The BIOS screen is small, but what you probably call splash screen is scaled up(big) and then windows welcome screen(where I enter password) is 1600x1200. I also have C800 and it works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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