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lost part of taskbar and 1/2 inch of screen on right
So I started my computer up yesterday, and I noticed an incomplete display. I looked at my resolution settings, everything was normal. I restarted and everything went back to normal. I fired my computer up today, everything was still fine.
I was having performance issues, noticed I had 80-something processes running, and decided that it might be helpful to reduce that a bit. I ran msconfig and disabled a number of programs. I reset the computer, no issues. I turned my laptop off, went home from the coffee shop where I was studying, turned the computer on, and something's off. I can see maybe the top 1/4 of the taskbar and 1/2 of my screen on the right is not being used. That's the same 'incomplete display" that I saw yesterday. Three restarts later, nothing has changed. Most of the other errors I've found online show that this problem in relation to playing a game. I've not done that, and nothing has made a resolution change. The computer is supposedly in 1280/800 resolution (the apparent preferred resolution).
When I take a screenshot, the screen looks normal.
I've also attached a picture (taken with my cellphone, so it is nice and dark, sorry) that shows what the screen really looks like.
My drivers are up to date. I don't know what else to check or where to look. I'm on a 2-year-old HP G62 notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit (SP1) running. My graphics card is the on-board, generic Intel HD graphics card.
Thanks,
Bob
*edit*
I've reinstalled my graphics drivers. I even reflashed my BIOS as some people have said this solved the problem for them. Neither thing fixed my problem. I also hooked up a second monitor to see if that would help, which, of course, it didn't.
Last edited by BastidBob; 27 Jan 2012 at 16:28. Reason: Update