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Liz B - 19 Sep 2004 10:04 GMT

I had to reinstall win98 to an old laptop. Everything
went fine apart from the fact that the display is now
about a quarter smaller with a wide black band around the
edge of the screen.

I can't change it in display properties, settings etc, it
won't let me change screen dimensions or anything.
However there is nothing whatsoever wrong with the
colours/resolution etc

I chose the win98 installation for portable computers
when reinstalling would this have anything to do with it?

The laptop is an old Toshiba satellite pro 4200 series.

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Bert Kinney - 19 Sep 2004 16:24 GMT

Hi Liz,

Go to the following web site and click on downloads.
Use the drop down boxes to select the model notebook
in question. Download and install the video driver for the
system. That should take care of the display problem.
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_home.jsp

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 20 Sep 2004 11:33 GMT

Hi Bert

Many thanks

Unfortunately since writing this post, i've found one
other item did not make it past the reinstall
experience... the internal modem.....!

Will attend to that first, then try your suggestion. I
had gone to the Toshiba website but did not know where to
look.

Liz

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Bert Kinney - 21 Sep 2004 00:50 GMT

Hi Liz,

Did you manage to find what you were looking for at
the link I provided?

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 21 Sep 2004 08:58 GMT

Hi Bert

Yes i did thanks. Unfortunately I have also had to
download the modem driver and a winzip extractor on a
portable harddrive in order to get them to the right
machine.

But hoping to try fix it tonight. If I extract the files
when transfered across to the laptop will windows detect
the modem/change the display automatically or would I
have to install them as hardware?

Liz

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Bert Kinney - 23 Sep 2004 00:18 GMT

Hi Liz,

Glad you found the correct drivers.

Download and install WinZip from www.winzip.con and install it
on the notebook. Move the modem driver to notebook and install
it per the README file.

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