Super small resolution (Pavilion ze4420us)

Hi,

A friend of mine has an HP Pavilion ze4420us laptop and seems to have a problem. When his computer starts up the screen is reduced in size so that all you can see is a 6"x6" area that's using the screen. Everything is displayed normally inside this "box". Once windows loads it's fine though.

I've searched google and from what I can see some manufactures have a "Fn+key" or "shift+key" type of shortcut that will change an internal setting and enlarge or reduce the picture being displayed.

Does anyone know this shortcut for an HP machine???

Thanks

 

That computer doesn't have that keyboard shortcut. Try go into bios or into display settings to find a stretch option for the screen.

 

thanks... I checked, but don't see anything in the BIOS. It seems very limited in what I can change. Does there happen to be a "admin settings" shortcut of some type to enable more BIOS options?

Also, I know Dell and HP are different, but I have an Dell laptop that's like 5 years older than this HP and that has a shortcut to enable/disable the scaling/image reduction. I can't remember what those keys are, but I do remember that they were not marked in anyway.

Is there a "general" HP shortcut that works on other laptops?... I'd still like to try it just to see if there is one.

I've just finished doing a reinstall of Windows and now even Windows is reduced... I assume that will be fixed once I install the graphic drivers and set the display to the navtive resolution, but I have to think there'd be a way to stretch the image since this would be really annoying with games that don't match that resolution.

 

After you install the drivers, go into catalyst, or right-click desktop, goto properties, resolution page, advanced and have a look for lcd scaling options.

 

thanks, I'll do that.