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cloning desktop via docking station

Hello folks! I have a Compaq NX6125 laptop running WinXP Pro that I just loaded up from the recovery discs. I have put it on its docking station and connected a monitor, keyboard, and mouse as can be expected. I want to adjust the resolution on the laptop to make it a sharper image on the monitor. I do that, but it does not clone to my monitor properly. It is as if the desktop display is too big for the screen. I can pull the mouse around the borders on the monito and the screen moves over different sections of the desktop display. For example if I pull the mouse the the left the desktop icons come into view. If I push it against the bottom then the taskbar appears. If I go the other directions then they move out of the screen's view. Has anyone ever encountered this sort of issue and found a way to fix it?
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Take the laptop out of the docking station and reset your screen resolution and put the laptop back to the docking
station.

http://www.helpwithpcs.com/tipsandtricks/changing-screen-resolution-win-xp.htm

Make sure you have the drivers installed for you video card
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Hi,

I believe that your laptop display supports SXGA+ resolution (1400x1050) - set this on the laptop and assuming your monitor can handle the same resolution, it should display better.

You may have defaulted to XGA (1024 x 768) which is quite low by today's standards - your monitor will try and 'stretch' the image to fit the panels higher resolution - this will make the image look blurred and lacking in detail.

Make sure that you have downloaded the correct video driver (ATI Radeon X300) for the laptop - was the recovery just the OS or did it include the drivers - on HP laptops these are normally on a separate CD/DVD.

ATI Driver: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=471753&prodNameId=471756&swEnvOID=1093&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-90476-1

You may want to download later drivers from HP website as these might be newer versions than the ones you have.

Regards,


RobMobility.
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Award them to yourself I suppose as you had already installed the latest drivers (as per both our suggestions) and you resolved the issue?
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I very much appreciate the help folks, I am sorry I couldn't get a clear resolution to this!
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I cannot be sure exactly what was the resolving action in this problem but it is resovled now