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Mini-Me
05-18-2007, 09:26 AM
Howdy.

Compaq Armada 1500c.

After finally finding out how to access the BIOS on this machine, I am now a little dissapointed to find that there is no BIOS-level way, to stretch the screen when used in DOS mode.

The LCD panel has a resolution of 800x600, however, DOS is 640x480, meaning that the DOS "Window" is in the middle of the panel, not taking up the full panel width and height.

I am trying to track down a VESA driver, which can get me around this problem.

Anyone know of anything?

Rick
05-18-2007, 03:38 PM
Finding Vesa drivers is dependent on the video card/chipset

Do a search for both the video card by chipset and vesa