3" Black Vertical Strip

LYNF67 · 10-19-2008, 12:09 PM

I am hoping someone has a solution for me as I have a black 3" vertical strip on the right and where the taskbar usually is a thin taskbar size multi colour strip has appeared. I have had this before after my daughter went on a game off the internet and managed to do something when I restarted the laptop to fix this but I have forgot what I did. The screen resolution on the graphics properties will only display 1024x768 and 800x600 whereas before there were 6 or 7 differrent sizes which it was set to 1280x768. Do I make any sense to anybody? or am I just a babbling monkey? help please before I go totally crazy. Thank you

**TriggerFinger** · 10-19-2008, 07:22 PM

Does it look like that if you just go into BIOS settings? If not then it could be video drivers related. I would definitely start with uninstalling the video drivers and reinstalling or updating them from the ones in the laptop maker's website.

LYNF67 · 10-20-2008, 02:44 AM

Sorted It By Doing A System Restore
Thanks Anyway For Replying

10-19-2008, 12:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
LYNF67 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: BARNSLEY UK Posts: 2 OS: WINDOWS XP	3" Black Vertical Strip I am hoping someone has a solution for me as I have a black 3" vertical strip on the right and where the taskbar usually is a thin taskbar size multi colour strip has appeared. I have had this before after my daughter went on a game off the internet and managed to do something when I restarted the laptop to fix this but I have forgot what I did. The screen resolution on the graphics properties will only display 1024x768 and 800x600 whereas before there were 6 or 7 differrent sizes which it was set to 1280x768. Do I make any sense to anybody? or am I just a babbling monkey? help please before I go totally crazy. Thank you Last edited by LYNF67; 10-19-2008 at 12:16 PM.

10-19-2008, 07:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,851 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: 3" Black Vertical Strip Does it look like that if you just go into BIOS settings? If not then it could be video drivers related. I would definitely start with uninstalling the video drivers and reinstalling or updating them from the ones in the laptop maker's website. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE

10-20-2008, 02:44 AM	#3 (permalink)
LYNF67 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: BARNSLEY UK Posts: 2 OS: WINDOWS XP	Re: 3" Black Vertical Strip Sorted It By Doing A System Restore Thanks Anyway For Replying