HELP: Dell Inspiron 8100 - Small Splash Screen?

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Hello,

For whatever reason, my Dell Inspiron 8100's splash went from
full-size (stretching the entire size of the 15" LCD display), down to
a fraction of this size. So it's now basically a small box the center
of the screen upon bootup. All pure DOS screens are reduced to this
same size as well.

However, when I boot into Windows, the screen resolution is absolutely
fine, and is full-screen as it should be.

I've looked all throughout the BIOS to try to find some kind of
setting for this, to no avail.

Any suggestions for getting this back to normal?

Thanks in advance for any help

Kevin G

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On 28 Sep 2004 20:05:01 -0400, ikenfixit@mchsi-dot-com.no-spam.invalid
(ikenfixit) wrote:

>Might want to look in BIOS advanced options for a Video expansion
>enabled?? Will cause this symptom


Many thanks for the reply... but unfortunately, the Inspiron BIOS
doesn't have this setting. I looked extensively through every option,
and now just again to make sure I wasn't missing something.... and
still nothing in there for Video Expansion.

Any other possible ideas?

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This only happens on my i8200 when the resolution is set below
1600x1200 native resolution. I assume it is an Nvidia driver or vbios
problem. display properties > settings > advanced > geforce 4 440 go
> nview display mode > device settings > swith back and forth on 2
settings then ok fixes it until next time.'


On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:02:55 -0400, Kevin Gibbons
<kevin@<NOSPAM>kgibbons.com> wrote:

>Any other possible suggestions on this one? I contacted the admin at
>http://www.bay-wolf.com/ - and he suggested FN-F5 upon boot, but
>unfortunately that didn't do anything.
>
>Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
>
>KG
>
>
>On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:09:26 -0400, Kevin Gibbons
><kevin@<NOSPAM>kgibbons.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>For whatever reason, my Dell Inspiron 8100's splash went from
>>full-size (stretching the entire size of the 15" LCD display), down to
>>a fraction of this size. So it's now basically a small box the center
>>of the screen upon bootup. All pure DOS screens are reduced to this
>>same size as well.
>>
>>However, when I boot into Windows, the screen resolution is absolutely
>>fine, and is full-screen as it should be.
>>
>>I've looked all throughout the BIOS to try to find some kind of
>>setting for this, to no avail.
>>
>>Any suggestions for getting this back to normal?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help
>>
>>Kevin G