New Acer 1691 display problem

I've recently purchased an Aspire 1691 with an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 video driver. I love the machine but there's one problem - many window dialog boxes do not scale to allow viewing of all the contents, leading to a lot of information bleeding off and out of sight to the right and down. I've updated to current drivers but it had not effect. I've done as many permutations of google searches I can think of that might uncover others who have the same problem, turning up nothing. I'm almost to the point of doing a complete restore and hoping for the best.

Aargh! It's driving me nuts! The worst part is that the Intel Graphics configure windows are among those affected!

If anyone has a solution, you'll be helping me cling to my sanity.
Thanks!

edited to add an example:

 

Hi

At last, someone with similar symptoms.

The laptop, a UK spec Acer Aspire 1691WLMi with Radeon X600, has been purchased by my uncle, a n00b to computers. He keeps getting similar screens to above, horrendous text clipping, etc.

I have checked everything today, font settings, sizes, but nothing seems adrift?!

Any ideas on way forward now?


EDIT - Just found this, post 14 on this thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=13040&page=2&pp=10
Very similar...

I can't believe this is a one-off problem anymore. I am not at the machine now, but should be able to get screen shots [once I have taught my uncle to Printscreen and email, lol ]

 

I had this problem at first too, but now it's gone. I'm sure its because of either the two:

1. Restore your laptop using the acer recovery cds when starting up the laptop (something like 4 cds in total).

2. Install a fresh copy of windows at system startup, letting it format the hard drive and then using the acer restore cd to install the drivers when windows has loaded.

Give either of them a try..im sure it'll work! What it'll do is auto-adjust the panels etc. Hope this helps!

 

I'm having this problem as well. It's pretty crappy. Adobe Gamma and Picasa dialog boxes do this as well. Isn't there a fix? My 1691 didn't come with an XP disc. A reformat isn't feasible.

 

Arch,
have to downloaded the lastest Intel drivers for your Extreme 2 card from Intel? This is the link to download the drivers for your card. See if this helps.

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Support_Intel.aspx

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DemonD,
You should try the same, but get the drivers directly from the ATI website rather than getting it from Acer. You can run the ATI Mobility Modder to allow you to run official ATI drivers on your notebook. Just download the ATI Modder form the below link.

www.DriverHeaven.net/patje

Just run the ATI executable and wait for the error saying that it can't find the correct hardware (normally can't run official ATI drivers on a notebook), once it errors out, run the ATI modder and point to the ATI folder (where the drivers are extrated to temporarily). When complete, re-run the Setup program from the ATI folder. This should now allow you to install the lastest drivers. See if this helps.

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Egad,
Your system should have come with an OS Restore CD. This will wipe the HDD and reload the system back to how it was when you first turned it on. This includes all partition settinsg as well. You may also be able to reload the OS using the hidden Acer partition. I believe it contains the recovery images. I'm sure someone here know how to utilize this partition. If not, then Acer should be able to help.

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