Sounds like you do not have the correct drivers installed. 800x600 and 1024x768 are not wide screen resolutions. They would look right on a typical non wide screen display and horizontally stretched on a wide screen display. Do you know the native resolution of the display in the laptop? Did the laptop come with any kind of recovery CDs or a recovery partition on the hard drive?
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Solved: screen resoluotion
hey guys, i just reformatted my hardrive, wanted to start over from scratch. everything's going well so far, but my screen resolution, i don't know how to explain it, just looks odd. i have a widescreen laptop, and everything sort of looks stretched. when i try to play with the resolution settings , i only have two options, 800x600 or 1024x768. i'm not sure if this has anything to do with things looking blurry and stretched, or if it's a driver issue. hope you can help me out.
thanks for your time.
thanks for your time.
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You may be lucky and the Resource CD may be configured to auto-run and automatically detect and install the right drivers for you. Are there any instructions printed on top of the Cd itself.fryguy8585 said:i have a dell, and it came with the DellResource CD, which has drivers on it, do you know which one i should be installing?
Dell made lots of different laptops. Might be kinda difficult for anyone here to suggest a specific display driver without knowing the exact Dell model name and model number of the laptop.
It is a very good start. Here is the driver download page on the Dell web site ...fryguy8585 said:its a Dell Inspiron E1705 if that helps.
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...s=gen&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_9400&os=WW1&osl=EN#
They list a multiple video controllers and you may need to further identify your particular computer.
If you click on "More Details" in the "Identify Your Hardware - Discover what is in your Computer" section near the bottom of the page, you should be able to enter the laptop's unique service tag number to figure out exactly what is in your unit.
BTW, I found these pixel resolution specs on another web site:
Screen: 17.0" UXGA TrueLife (1900 x 1200 pixel resolution glossy screen)
You are welcome. Glad to hear that we could help you out. :up:fryguy8585 said:yea, i used the site you gave me and installed one of the drivers and now everythings back to normal, thanks a lot.
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