Windows too big to display everything.

My Clevo m57a laptop WSXGA+ LCD screen was cracked and I decided to buy a compatible WXGA+ LCD for the laptop but after I installed it, the windows was way too big for the LCD and the bottom portion of my desktop is cut off. I can't even see the start menu. I've tried changing the resolution, refresh rate and dpi but it didn't work. The LCD cable said WSXGA (not WSXGA+) I don't know if it will affect it. I tried updating my Geforce Go7800gtx but it says it can't find the hardware despite that I downloaded the Geforce Go7800gtx drivers specific to the Clevo m57a.

The resolution option given in the display settins are:
1920 x 1440 || 1920 x 1200 || 1920 x 1080 || 1680 x 1050 || 1600 x 1200 || 1400 x 1050 || 1280 x 960 || 1280 x 768 || 1280 x 720 || 1152 x 864 || 1088 x 612 || 1024 x 768 || 800 x 600

I don't have the recommended resolution for the WXGA+ which is 1440 X 900.

Is it the LCD cable problem, graphics card problem, the incorrect LCD screen or any other possible reason?

Thank you very much for your help.

 

Its the TVs fault.

 

Tv's? There isn't a tv. Do you mean the LCD?

 

All you have to do is delete and re-detect the hardware (monitor and maybe graphics card) from device manager and let it be re-detected.

I had this problem when I accidentally replaced my laptop's 1280x800 panel with a 1280x768 model instead.

 

....hmmmm, did you put this in a computer that already was loaded with an OS? Just out of curiousity, try this...right click COMPUTER, go to MANAGEMENT, go to DEVICE MANAGER.

Click the + next to MONITOR, right click the Plug and Play monitor, and choose UNINSTALL. Now go to DISPLAY ADAPTER, click the +, choose your adapter, choose uninstall, then check the box that says REMOVE DEVICE DRIVERS, click OK

Reboot, let Windows restart and auto detect everything--report back

 

Dang, I cannot type as fast as you....

 

Lol, sorry. I didnt read the entire post. I thought you had a LCD TV. My bad.

 

Thank you everybody for the fast response. I have uninstalled the monitor and reinstalled it but it didn't. I attempted to uninstall the video card but because the windows is too big to fit on my display, I can't even access low enough on the device manager to even uninstall the graphics card.

 

So the old screen was WSXGA+ (1680x1050) and the new one is WXGA+(1440x900) ?

edit: dw I read your first post again/

What happens if you try set 1280x768 or 1280x720?

 

I set all those resolution before. Apparently now my display went totally black and I was not able to install my video card drivers.

 

I had this issue on another machine at one time. I was able to drag the mouse down on the screen and the screen would scroll down to the task bar or the bottom of a menu. You can try this if you are able to get back to the desktop.

A WXGA+ display should provide you a resolution option of 1440x900. I would try uninstalling the video driver and let it re-detect.

 

Graphic card is ABOVE the monitor under DISPLAY ADAPTER, not under video...that said, there are a couple ways to do this, but first, you can use the cursor keys on your keyboard, the tab key, and the ENTER key to work your way around the Device Manager.

You can also uninstall the device driver in Programs and Features in Control Panel, as well as downloading Driver Sweeper (google it)

 

Yah i found and uninstalled it and then somehow the screen turned all black after restarting.

 

It's black now?

That doesn't make sense...if you have no video driver for you specific card, windows defaults to the generic vga driver...I am thinking your cable came loose

 

Yeah, I would uninstall the video drivers in safe mode, reboot to safe mode, install video drivers in safe mode (safest procedure for driver installation/uninstallation), cross fingers.

 

I don't know when I open the computer the startup screen displays but when the windows xp starts up the screen turns black.

 

that sounds for all the world like a driver is not completely loading or the wrong driver was forced to install.

Did you tap f8 and load into safe mode? (this may still not work--I am just asking). If not, I have a thought or two, but I need know what resources you have...another desktop computer perhaps? does it support sata?

 

I started it up in safe mode a few times and I still get that black screen. I do hear windows load and a pop up in the background. I do have a desktop that supports sata.

 

Vista 32 or 64?

This happened to me once when someone installed two sets of drivers (intel gma and nvidia drivers) on a machine...the second install corrupted the correct drivers.

I cannot recall if I dropped the drive into another computer as a slave or built a Bart Pe, but what I did was rename any file that began with nv???.dll or nv???.sys in c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\system32\drivers. I then did the same for the Intel drivers....cannot recall those files, but it's not critical here since that isn't your problem

On restart, Windows restarted using the default svga drivers. I then installed new nvidia drivers and up she came.

 

Yah but the whole screen is black so I can't even install the new drivers or anything.

 

maybe I am misunderstanding things

Let's back up

When you start your computer, before windows loads, do you see anything at all (bios splash, memory count up, hardware enumeration)?