Laptop display black border

[honeypot3]

I have an HP Omnibook XE3 laptop which after initial boot up where the display is fine shows an 800 x 600 display with a big black border aroudn the outside when it reaches the Windows XP logon screen. When you then logon the screen which appears has no Start menu or task bar and you cannot even use the Windows key to open it. I can however, right click and change the settings back to 1024 x 768, screen increases properly but still no Start menu but if I log out and log back in as someone else everything is fine until the laptop is rebooted and then it has forgotten everything again. In addition, occasionally after boot up when the logon screen is about to be reached, I just get a black screen.

On further investigation in the Advanced properties of display I have found that for this laptop it is set up in Monitors to have (Multiple monitors) on Intel (R) 830M Graphics Controllers -0, whereas my other Ominbook laptop just specifies a digital flat panel. When I look into monitor properties in Advanced I find two monitors listed one is called Generic television. I have uninstalled (eventhough I never installed it in the first place) this and disabled it but when the laptop is rebooted it has returned. Could this be the cause of the display problems at logon - if so how do I get rid of it once and for all?

Thanks for reading this rather long winded explanation, Sandra

 

[milslim]

i'm having the exact same problem,tried everything i know(not much..lol..)but nothing worked.please someone reply to this thread please...