I have an Inspiron 8200 that I broke the LCD in; I purchased a used LCD on Ebay and installed it successfully. Everything was working perfectly until I dropped the laptop a small distance and the battery popped out for long enough for my CMOS to reset. When I booted the machine up I noticed that my screen was not displaying everything in fullscreen. My resolution was 1024X768 in Windows XP Pro. There was about 2" worth of black space around my screen. When I changed my resolution to 1280X1024 (which is my LCD's Native resolution BTW) it would display everything in full screen how it should be. Basically what I gather is that my LCD is somehow stuck in it's native resolution and will not change, whatever resolution I place it in, the LCD is still in 1280X1024 and just scales the resolution the OS tells it to fit in 1280X1024 without any stretching.. or something like that. I also have Windows 98 on this machine and DOS 6.22 for some older applications I run. When I go into DOS I experience the same trouble except even worse because of the resolution differences. Which leads me to believe that it is not a driver problem because my laptop has never had drivers in that OS.
So I have been on Dell's website and asked for help and they tell me to reinstall my laptop drivers. After doing this absolutely nothing changed; I even ran Dell diagnostics and it found nothing wrong.
I have been in the CMOS looking for settings I can manipulate, and I can find absolutely nothing that deals with the LCD that corrected my problem; In fact there wasn't much to change besides the system date and some power settings anyways.
I went ahead and reflashed the BIOS with a new one found on Dell's website and it did nothing as well.
I have reinstalled Windows XP Pro, with no changes in my problem.
I can pretty well use the computer with only a little eyestrain while in 1280X1024 without fixing this problem, but not all of my games can support that resolution, so I'd kind of like to fix it.
Please post a reply if you can help or if you have a problem similar.
So I have been on Dell's website and asked for help and they tell me to reinstall my laptop drivers. After doing this absolutely nothing changed; I even ran Dell diagnostics and it found nothing wrong.
I have been in the CMOS looking for settings I can manipulate, and I can find absolutely nothing that deals with the LCD that corrected my problem; In fact there wasn't much to change besides the system date and some power settings anyways.
I went ahead and reflashed the BIOS with a new one found on Dell's website and it did nothing as well.
I have reinstalled Windows XP Pro, with no changes in my problem.
I can pretty well use the computer with only a little eyestrain while in 1280X1024 without fixing this problem, but not all of my games can support that resolution, so I'd kind of like to fix it.
Please post a reply if you can help or if you have a problem similar.
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