Problem with my new wideScreen notebook

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Hi,

Check your screen controls, as you are probably in a standard format instead
of widescreen. In addition to reinstalling the OS, you may also need to
separately reinstall the video drivers.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Dusty" <Dusty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought a new HP Pavilion and installed some games on it when I first
> got the games they all filled up the 1200 by 800 screen but now I
> reformatted
> the hard drive and reinstalled all the drivers and softwear I have a ATI
> 9000IGP video card for some reson now the games dont fill the screen I
> set
> them to to the highest setting but still there is a big gap on each side
> of
> my screen can somebody please help!?