Bios Screen too large for monitor... Can't see half of my settings...

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Hey guys, the title says it all really...

My post screen fits neatly into the confines of my monitor, but the bios is like double width, as is the boot screen (although it's fine when the vista takes over for the loading animation). I can't adjust my monitor enough to bring the right hand side of the bios menu into view so therefore I can't see anything that's on that side!

The monitor pops up telling me to adjust the resolution, but doesn't do anything about it - even when I press the auto adjust button, it refocusses the screen, but I still only have half of my bios :(

Hopefully someone here can help - and hopefully I've put it in the right forum, I couldn't see anything directly BIOS related so I dropped it in here
(if it is in the wrong place, maybe a mod could shift it for me and pm me where it is... cheers)

Thanks in advance...
 
What resolution are you on? Are you running multiple monitors?

First thing I would do is boot into safe mode, the get into display properties, and select the most basic resolution you have available. 800x600, 640x480..... something like that. Go to 16bit colour mode as well just to be safe.

Restart, go into bios, and *hopefully* it'll be back to normal.
 
No, unfortunately that didn't help :(

I had viideo settings as low as possible... i went into 'list all modes' and hit 640x480 with 16 colours... but still made no difference to bios

I don't understand how the bios screen is off-centre but the post screen displays perfectly... it's wierd!
 
I suspect your monitor has incorrectly detected and adjusted the image for the BIOS screen. You should be able to manually edit the screen size using your monitor's menu buttons so you can see it all.
 
Nope, can only wind it in so far, it helps maybe 5% but nowhere near enough to see the whole screen... there's an 'auto adjust button' on there, all that does it twitch the screen a bit.

I've tried all the obvious - even tried plugging the monitor into the 2nd output on my radeon, that didn't help either :(
 
I think it IS system related as this same monitor framed the bios perfectly on my old machine...

I dunno if that makes it easier or harder to deal with... this is a problem I've never encountered before

Would a bios upgrade help? I've got bios version F3 at the moment, I know there's a version F4 on gigabyte's website...?
 
I'd try a BIOS upgrade if one is available.

Wouldn't even consider this:-
jimbob27 said:
What resolution are you on? Are you running multiple monitors?

First thing I would do is boot into safe mode, the get into display properties, and select the most basic resolution you have available. 800x600, 640x480..... something like that. Go to 16bit colour mode as well just to be safe.

Restart, go into bios, and *hopefully* it'll be back to normal.
Click to expand...

Complete waste of time as Windows video settings have no effect on the boot screens at all.
 
That's what I thought - but thought it might have an effect on the monitor focus at that resolution...............it didn't lol

How do i flash the bios on my mobo then? what's the best utility for doing the job etc...
I know the basics just want an expert oppinion

Also, can it be done via boot cd? as I have no floppy drive
 
Have you tried switching off the monitor when you are at the BIOS screen and switching it back on?

One of my systems results in the monitor reporting signal out of range when I go to the BIOS screen but it fixes itself when I switch the monitor off and back on again.
 
Yeah tried the auto adjust as I said in previous posts, it just makes the screen twitch a bit but doesn't correct the framing unfortunately... gonna try your suggestion now str, here i go with crossed fingers.......

>>EDIT<<
Alas still no joy...
 
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Auto Adjust as far as I'm aware only works with VGA not DVI. So it depends how you monitor is connected. Maybe try a different input type if your monitor supports it.

This sort of problem shouldn't really happen with DVI.
 
The monitor is VGA in only and the Radeon is DVI out only... just got the connector block on there...

Same cable+adapter didn't have a problem with my old computer though so I don't think it's anything to do with those... I just think my Radeon hate's my BIOS lol
 
Very odd, have you tried changing the "Display First" option in BIOS to the slot that the card is in?
 
The graphics card should scale the screen correctly. I would look to a system fault somewhere.
 
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