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The size of the screen that my T21 uses to display its BIOS settings
has shrunk by a factor of 1.5-inch from either sides. The font size
has got smaller too. I can't find anything in the BIOS settings that
might affect the problem in question.

I don't use Windows on this laptop, only slackware. And the only
thing uncommon that I have been doing in the last week or less is that
I have been using the suspend feature of T21 a lot, something I hadn't
used.

--
Ayaz Ahmed Khan, <http://fast-ce.org/linux>
``Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to using Windows
NT for mission-critical applications.'' -- What Yoda *meant* to say.

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If it's the bios, then the issue is a setting in the BIOS. The bios
screen is 640x480, and it's being displayed on a larger screen (800x600
or 1024x768, presumably). There are two options, display the small
screen centered in the larger screen, or "stretch" the image to make it
fill the screen (which will cause distortion -- the smaller screen is
generally much clearer). Somewhere in the BIOS setup is the setting
that controls this, keep looking.

Ayaz Ahmed Khan wrote:

> The size of the screen that my T21 uses to display its BIOS settings
> has shrunk by a factor of 1.5-inch from either sides. The font size
> has got smaller too. I can't find anything in the BIOS settings that
> might affect the problem in question.
>
> I don't use Windows on this laptop, only slackware. And the only
> thing uncommon that I have been doing in the last week or less is that
> I have been using the suspend feature of T21 a lot, something I hadn't
> used.
>

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Barry Barry Barry
Fn + F8 resizes the screen on IBM's
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:CNrjd.9261$8y4.6751@fe1.columbus.rr.com...
> If it's the bios, then the issue is a setting in the BIOS. The bios
> screen is 640x480, and it's being displayed on a larger screen (800x600
> or 1024x768, presumably). There are two options, display the small
> screen centered in the larger screen, or "stretch" the image to make it
> fill the screen (which will cause distortion -- the smaller screen is
> generally much clearer). Somewhere in the BIOS setup is the setting
> that controls this, keep looking.
>
>
> Ayaz Ahmed Khan wrote:
>
> > The size of the screen that my T21 uses to display its BIOS settings
> > has shrunk by a factor of 1.5-inch from either sides. The font size
> > has got smaller too. I can't find anything in the BIOS settings that
> > might affect the problem in question.
> >
> > I don't use Windows on this laptop, only slackware. And the only
> > thing uncommon that I have been doing in the last week or less is that
> > I have been using the suspend feature of T21 a lot, something I hadn't
> > used.
> >

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I've seen the LCD ribbon connector loosen from the MB and cause this, but I
would also expect to see a size problem during operation with an OS in control.
Try pressing hard in the center of the KB just above the 6-7-8 group.

On 7 Nov 2004 15:18:09 GMT, Ayaz Ahmed Khan <resilient@myrealbox.com> wrote:

>The size of the screen that my T21 uses to display its BIOS settings
>has shrunk by a factor of 1.5-inch from either sides. The font size
>has got smaller too. I can't find anything in the BIOS settings that
>might affect the problem in question.
>
>I don't use Windows on this laptop, only slackware. And the only
>thing uncommon that I have been doing in the last week or less is that
>I have been using the suspend feature of T21 a lot, something I hadn't
>used.

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"Bruce Markowitz" typed:

> Barry Barry Barry
> Fn + F8 resizes the screen on IBM's

Yes. I guess I must have accidentally pushed F8 instead of F7 to
power up/down the LCD.

Thanks to everyone who has replied.

--
Ayaz Ahmed Khan, <http://fast-ce.org/linux>
``Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to using Windows
NT for mission-critical applications.'' -- What Yoda *meant* to say.

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