Video display size

a little more info might be nice, like video adapter, monitor,laptop? Can you use the monitor adjustment tools to reset to full screen? try a different monitor and/or a different video card til reloaded.
Good Luck.

I do not know what type of monitor you are using but you definately have a monitor problem and is unlikely to be a PC or video card problem. My strongest suspicion, with a lack of more info about your hardware, is you need to adjust your monitor screen size. On the front of the monitor is some buttons that will adjust picture width, height, horizontal or vertical position, trapezoidal, degauss and so forth. This does not appear in Windows because the settings are correct for Windows and not fordos. The monitor remembers these settings between Operating System, and may be different in dos compared to windows. These are the first things that come to mind in your description of your problem.

You should have some type of controls on the monitor itself for vert and hor sizing. They should be buttons, knobs or a menu driven graphic interface. set it so all the text is visable and you should be fine.

The answers that came in are not any help for the question I asked.All seem to think it has to do with the monitor or controls.Sorry Charlie,not so. First (scenerio,no operating sysytem at all).the startup disk loads ram disk.An edit window can be accessed.
eg............../............. the screen.
This is where I type to and it is down 2 or 3 lines.
Also the screen is showing double or split verticaly.

c is here.I type up there
c is here.I type up there.
The monitor is a Dell 1526 T-hs Trinitron 3 years old.Still bright and shiny new.Even my new samsung digital flat 753 DF does the same thing.

Get another computer and begin swapping parts - the monitor, the video card, etc. Swap only one thing at a time. Eventually you'll know what is causing the problem. Try swapping hard drives, if nothing else works.

Based on what you have said, that's probably the only way you will find out what the problem is.

Of course, to FDISK your hard drive, you could always put it in another computer and FDISK it there, then reinstall it in your computer.

There is another advantage to FDISKingyour hard drive in another computer: If your hard drive has more megs than your computer will recognize, sometimes you can FDISK and format it in a newer computer, in order to be able to access all of the megs of the drive. Then when you reinstallit in your computer, it will work at the higher capacity in your computer.

This is definitely a hardware issue, usually it's when the screen is adjusted completely out of the sync range. I have also seen video card issues cause this kind of problem.

Do you see the same issues with a different video card? What software are you pre-installing? What happens if you just use a basic bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com? What hapens when you change the manual controls for the picture on the monitor?

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