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Jay
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8th Jan 07 at 21:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Just bought a second hand laptop off a mate and the screen display is tiny, I cant work out how to get it bigger? (example below)
John
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8th Jan 07 at 21:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Change the resolution to something higher.

If it won't let you change it you will have to find the appropriate drivers.
Marc
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8th Jan 07 at 21:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
In Control Panel-Display-Settings.
Jay
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8th Jan 07 at 21:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Tried that John, it is stuck on the smallest setting, and wont let me change it, I havent got a clue with computers so any help on how to do it please?
dave17
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8th Jan 07 at 21:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
nice drawing
Jay
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John
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8th Jan 07 at 21:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Find out what the laptop is, go to the manufacturers site and you should be able to download graphics drivers.
RS6
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8th Jan 07 at 22:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
no graphics driver installed

Jay
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8th Jan 07 at 22:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ok all I know is its a Dell Inspiron 4000

[Edited on 08-01-2007 by JayM]
ssj_kakarot
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http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&SystemID=INS_PNT_CEL_4000&os=WW1&osl=EN#

its one of those display drivers on there, not sure which model you have though, check device manager should tell you.

Also learn to use google lol.
Jay
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8th Jan 07 at 22:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Nice one mate il have a go

I did use google but it doesnt help when you dont know what you looking for

[Edited on 08-01-2007 by JayM]
Jay
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8th Jan 07 at 22:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
device manager?
ssj_kakarot
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right click on my computer ---> properties --> hardwaretab---> click device manager

find "display driver" in the list shown, click on the little + arrow next to it, should tell you what card is in your laptop (hopefully) although it might not if it does not have any drivers installed.
RS6
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8th Jan 07 at 22:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just download the drivers from dell can't go wrong laptop name and number put in the search part of the website shouldn't take long to find the right drivers
Jay
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8th Jan 07 at 23:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I found it using the service tag: BNST50J

But still dont know what im needing to download, might pass it on to someone who knows what they are doing, im useless!
John
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9th Jan 07 at 12:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R54236&SystemID=INS_PNT_CEL_4000&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=675&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=3&formatcnt=1&libid=6&fileid=64350
Jay
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10th Jan 07 at 21:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
The laptops not windows XP its Windows ME, I want to change it to XP though
John
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http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&SystemID=INS_PNT_CEL_4000&os=WME&osl=en&deviceid=675&typecnt=1&libid=6&releaseid=R36591&vercnt=5
Jay
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10th Jan 07 at 22:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeh that worked nice one mate!!
Hammer
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you should get a job with dell John!
John
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