Laptop display not fullscreen!

[Xenogear900]

I just got a hold of an old Toshiba Satellite. Its about a 500mhz processor. I originally put Windows 98SE, then I decided I'd put Windows 2000 Professional. The display is showing everything, but in a square that only takes up about 70% of the monitor. How do I stretch the display to make it display full screen. I tried 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, and that still doesn't fix the problem!
In the display properties:
My Display Adapter is: Trident Video Accelerator 9525DVD
My Monitor Setting is: Multiple Monitors (Generic Television, Default Monitor, Toshiba Internal 1024x768 Panel). For some reason, I can't just select one of them, it has all of them.

How do I make the screen stretch out and fill the entire LCD panel, not just the middle of it?

I attached a picture of the screen that I took with my digital camera. I'm showing you the problem with my finger. Take a look at it.

Weltall900@yahoo.com

[painkiller]

To fix your problem, you have to go to the Support section of the Toshiba website and download all the Windows 2000 drivers for that model laptop.

In particular, the display driver will fix the problem you speak of - but the other drivers are also important to get the laptop running at 100% usage (all builtin peripherals such as sound, floppy, etc.).

I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite laptop by taking out its 6Gb hard drive and installing an 80G instead and went through this myself.

Good luck.

[holistic]

I'll second painkiller - install the correct video drivers.

TOSHIBA

[Xenogear900]

Ok, I got the driver (it was a NT4 driver), the closest thing to Windows 2000 I guess. I had to activate a setting called display stretch, but now it made the text all blocky and chunky. How do I fix this?

Weltall900@yahoo.com

[budz]

Ok, I got the driver (it was a NT4 driver), the closest thing to Windows 2000 I guess. I had to activate a setting called display stretch, but now it made the text all blocky and chunky. How do I fix this?

Weltall900@yahoo.com

You probably got the wrong drivers for the laptop. What's the model # of that Toshiba laptop?

[Xenogear900]

The model is 2715XDVD. The OS I'm using on it is Windows 2000 Professional. I'd be eternally greatful if you could point me to the correct display driver for it. Also when I have the display stretched, it only displays color at 16-bit. When I adjust it to 32-bit, it goes back to just partial screen size.

Also, the monitor type is displayed as "Default Monitor" and it won't let me change it.


Thank you in advance
Weltall900@yahoo.com

[oldandinthe way]

Sure sounds like the wrong driver.

Is your display adaptor on the Micosoft Windows 2000 supported hardware list? Is your system supported by Win2000. Is there an option to increase display memory size on your computer?

Your system originally shipped with Win98. There may not be Win2000 drivers.

[liquid217]

I assume you have gone to display properties, and have tried to increase the resolution to the native size of your laptop screen?

if the native resolution is 1024x768, and your OS is only using 640x480, then the laptop has 2 options, either use only a portion of the screen (as your picture demonstrates), or rescale the image, giving it a jagged look. To fix this, simply make sure your desktop resolution matches the native resolution.

Edit: I didn't read all of your original post, so I see now that it appears you have 3 output devices. I'm guessing this laptop probably has a tv out option, and a vga out as well. I would make sure that 1024x768 is selected on all 3 output options.

[oldandinthe way]

Here is a link to a press release on this laptop.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Feb_22/ai_59581442

I suggest you pursue making it run Win98SE or WinMe. Win2000 pro is a bit heavy for this unit. You can try to chase down drivers but frankly the effort would be better spent with an older O/s

[painkiller]

Have you been to this support site???

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modItemList.jsp

This is where I got to following Toshiba's model breakdown for 2715XDVD.

You need all of these files.
(with the possible exception of Toshiba Windows 2000 Utilities (v1.02.03-RC3.; 06-05-2000; 1.5M))

Not just one of them.