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Laptop only displays image on 2/3 of lcd screen.

The image is complete, another words it's not cut of by the blank right side of screen. The image looks like it was just pushed toward the left side leaving it looking somewhat compressed and distorted like it looks when you set an older lcd, with a native resolution of 1024x768, to 1280x800. The windows desktop for instance looks distorted, round icon will look oval shaped because the aspect ratio is not right. This laptop displays this distorted image right from the moment the machine turns on so it's not the resolution settings in Windows, and an external display works fine when attached to vga port on the back. This is a Compaq Presario R3000 laptop.I've tried swapping memory and cpu but no effect. I am going to try a different lcd on it and or try it's lcd on a different laptop but haven't got the resources to do it just yet. I've spent several hours searching for some one with similar problem with no luck. So if anyone knows what this might be I'd sure appreciate any input that might be helpful. Thanks.

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  • glondahl Sep 07, 2009

    As I said this distorted image using only 2/3 of viewable screen appears as soon as the laptop is turned on. So when it goes through the POST it's in this condition, which tells me it's not the windows drivers as windows hasn't even begin to load yet. Any other ideas...

  • glondahl Sep 09, 2009

    Just forget about windows for a minute, how can I make this clearer. OK if you boot from an old dos floppy disk the screen will look the same, pushed over to the left 2/3 and blank on the right 1/3. I've run linux live cd's and when completely booted to gui like KDE or GNOME it looks the same, changing resolution has no effect on the problem. I have installed windows on at least 200 laptops and never seen this problem before. It's not a common problem nor a common solution. The solution maybe simple but it's really stumped me on finding it. I suppose the ATI gaphics chip could be bad, but why would the external monitor work. I've updated the bios thinking maybe it was corrupt but no difference. Also the lcd works fine on another machine, although I still haven't tried a different lcd on this presario, just don't have one laying around at the moment.

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Try installing the latest video driver. Download it from the HP WEB site and make sure the video driver matches Windows XP or Vista that is installed on your laptop.

  • Anonymous Sep 08, 2009

    I have installed Windows on quite a few laptops (I am a computer volunteer at Technical Aid to the Disabled and prepare and install Windows XP on laptops for disabled people), on quite a few laptops I have found during the installation process the display has not filled the whole screen until the video driver has been installed and the screen resolution adjusted.

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