How do I fix my display

[Jahgee]

I accidentally'd my laptop while cleaning it out and now it displays circles as this

How do I make it so it displays that as a circle while maintaining full-screen?

 

[Pako]

I would love to help, but I really don't understand the question.

 

[dice1998]

Maintaining full screen?

I'm going to have to ask you for a pic of what the screen is doing.

 

[Jahgee]

What it does is that the pixels are horizontally longer rectangles and I want them to be squares.

 

[dice1998]

You mean something like that?

 

[Pako]

What it does is that the pixels are horizontally longer rectangles and I want them to be squares.

So your resolution changed and your aspect is incorrect now? Is your circle an oval now? And, what laptop do you have? Make, model, etc...

 

[Jahgee]

Yes, a 64*64 cube zoomed in at 800% on paint I measured out to be 7 inches horizontal and 5 inches vertical

So your resolution changed and your aspect is incorrect now? Is your circle an oval now?

Correct

 

[Pako]

Yes, a 64*64 cube zoomed in at 800% on paint I measured out to be 7 inches horizontal and 5 inches vertical



Correct

Just go into your resolutions settings and max out the resolution. Usually, your "max" setting is your native supported resolution for LCD's and will correct your aspect ratio.

Do you know how to do that?

 

[Jahgee]

Just go into your resolutions settings and max out the resolution. Usually, your "max" setting is your native supported resolution for LCD's.

Do you know how to do that?

No

 

[Pako]

What operating system do you have?

 

[Jahgee]

What operating system do you have?

Windows 7 Home Premium

 

[Pako]

Here you go: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-your-screen-resolution

• Open Screen Resolution by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, and then, under Appearance and Personalization, clicking Adjust screen resolution.
  
• Click the drop-down list next to Resolution, move the slider to the resolution you want, and then click Apply.
  
• Click Keep to use the new resolution, or click Revert to go back to the previous resolution.

 

[Jahgee]

My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5252, I did what that said but I'm already at the highest point on the scale, and the lowest zooms the screen in to an unusable point

 

[djinline]

My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5252, I did what that said but I'm already at the highest point on the scale, and the lowest zooms the screen in to an unusable point

Is the highest point of the scale also your native resolution (1366x768) or is something else?

 

[Jahgee]

Is the highest point of the scale also your native resolution (1366x768) or is something else?

The highest point on the scale is 1024*768

 

[Pako]

djinline is correct. Your highest setting should be 1366x768. If it is not, you more than likely have a driver issue not allowing that resolution to be set.

 

[Jahgee]

djinline is correct. Your highest setting should be 1366x768. If it is not, you more than likely have a driver issue not allowing that resolution to be set.

How would I fix that?

 

[djinline]

The highest point on the scale is 1024*768

No wonder it stretches circles. Have you tried updating your graphics drivers?

 

[Pako]

A uninstall/reinstall of the driver usually does the job assuming there is no hardware issues at play or other conflicts.

I'm wonder, as this is a laptop, if you accidentally entered a "presentation" mode. Often laptops have a display mode that when used with projectors or overhead units will dumb the resolution down making the laptop a clone of older, non-wide screen projector units.

Looking into your particular model now.

Download drivers here.

In some basic searching, I did find this as a solution from this thread:

Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{FEE9B7B8-B684-444A-BB90-505CAF0F90E4}
Now in sub folder 0000 select entry display1 downscaling support and set it to 1 instead of 0.
Save your settings and exit.
Now goto your display adapters setting and you will be able to set screen res to what you want.

Enjoy, took me hours to find it
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You will have to use regedit to do this.

 

[Jahgee]

I found regedit and opened it and got down to CurrentControlSet, but there is no Video option. The options I do have are Control, Enum, Hardware Profiles, Policies and services.

Edit: Under Control it has a Video option, but it doesn't have the FEE option

 

[Pako]

I found regedit and opened it and got down to CurrentControlSet, but there is no Video option. The options I do have are Control, Enum, Hardware Profiles, Policies and services.

Edit: Under Control it has a Video option, but it doesn't have the FEE thing

Oh really?

Well, try to reinstall your video/graphics driver. Probably use the link I provided to find the correct driver for your laptop.

Seems kind of funky to me......

[Edit] Dumb question, but you have rebooted correct?

 

[Jahgee]

Oh really?

Well, try to reinstall your video/graphics driver. Probably use the link I provided to find the correct driver for your laptop.

Seems kind of funky to me......

[Edit] Dumb question, but you have rebooted correct?

Which driver would I download from the site you linked me to? Yes I have rebooted

 

[Pako]

Are you 32 or 64 bit OS?

 

[Pako]

64-bit Video Driver.
32-bit Video Driver.

 

[Jahgee]

Are you 32 or 64 bit OS?

64 bit

 

[priesty_lfc]

If it was correct but then dropped and now it's incorrect how can it be the drivers?

 

[djinline]

...

 

[Pako]

64 bit

See the link I provided above.

If it was correct but then dropped and now it's incorrect how can it be the drivers?

Driver files can get corrupt or changed. Sometimes a reinstall of the driver restores default factory settings. If you are not that familiar with an OS, reinstalling a driver is one of the easier solutions to try and support via text message responses.

 

[Jahgee]

Okay, I have the driver downloaded, what do I do with it now?

 

[Pako]

Double click to extract or open the compressed file. You should an .exe in there. Like setup.exe. Double click on it to start the install.