Help-Changed graphics card and lost the taskbar!!
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:52 pmCan anyone help? My son has a Dell 3100 (which doesn't come with a graphics card) so we have put a Radeon 9250 PCI card, as the Dell only has PCI slots. We've installed the drivers from the CD accompanying the card, and the PC now has the ATI Catalyst control centre.
The problem is that although the desktop looks OK at 1280x960 pixels (as it did before), and whereas the wallpaper and icons look much as they did before, the start button and taskbar have disappeared! Also, the mouse can now disappear off to the right and below the screen as if there's more screen, but we can't see it. (It didn't do this with the machine's original graphics.) So the taskbar may be there, but it might be 'below' the screen. One thing that makes me think this is that one of my son's games, a Star Wars RPG has a 800x600 opening screen (like FlightSim) but instead of being in the centre of the screen, it's displaced to right (almost half off the right edge of the screen) and slightly down. (Thinking about it, the wallpaper and icons are probably ok because they'd be ,apped from the top left of the screen?
It's almost as if the graphics card is trying to fit the image to a much larger resolution screen. Is there a setting in the Catalyst settings (or anywhere else) that I should adjust? Can anyone help?
Many thanks.
The problem is that although the desktop looks OK at 1280x960 pixels (as it did before), and whereas the wallpaper and icons look much as they did before, the start button and taskbar have disappeared! Also, the mouse can now disappear off to the right and below the screen as if there's more screen, but we can't see it. (It didn't do this with the machine's original graphics.) So the taskbar may be there, but it might be 'below' the screen. One thing that makes me think this is that one of my son's games, a Star Wars RPG has a 800x600 opening screen (like FlightSim) but instead of being in the centre of the screen, it's displaced to right (almost half off the right edge of the screen) and slightly down. (Thinking about it, the wallpaper and icons are probably ok because they'd be ,apped from the top left of the screen?
It's almost as if the graphics card is trying to fit the image to a much larger resolution screen. Is there a setting in the Catalyst settings (or anywhere else) that I should adjust? Can anyone help?
Many thanks.
