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Benjamin Miner wrote:
> 
> I consider myself to be a fairly educated person when it comes to
> computers (I assembled the one I am useing right myself), but I am stuck
> on this monitor/video card problem I am experiencing.  Allow me to give
> you a little background.  Up until now, I was useing a 14 inch maxnovox
> at 640x480.  A week ago, I bought a "re-conditioned" 15 inch Dell
> trinitron.  It turns out actually, that it's a Sony labeled as a Dell.
> 
>         My computer has Kelvin Orchid 64 video card in it, which is one
> that is directly supported by windows 95.  However, I can't find my
> monitor on the Windows 95 list.  I have tried all the monitors, and I
> still have the same problem.  The problem is that, in 800 x 600
> resolution (it can go up to 1024 x 768) the inch on the left and the
> right is compacted about 40-50%.  Whatever is in that space is
> skinnier.  In 640 x 480, and in 1024 x 768, it is fine.  In Dos, when I
> load with a boot disk, the screen is ONLY compacted on the inch on
> the right side. When I load windows in safe mode (standard vga 640 x 480)
> the screen is also fine.  It ONLY seems to happen at 800 x 600, which
> also happens to be the resolution I want to run Windows 95 at.
> 
>         My question is... Does this sound like a monitor problem or a
> Video card problem?  I have tested the monitor on different computers,
> and it exibits the same symptomes every time.  Any help anybody could
> offer me would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

Hi Benjamin,
            could be a driver problem. When in safe mode Windows 95 
defaults to the Windows 95 VGA driver.
Try the driver in the settings menu for the screen that is suppose to be 
the equivalent monitor from Sony and see how it goes. If all else fails 
then see if you can find some of the latest drivers for Sony on the WWW 
and download. Follow the instructions for downloading.
By the way, when changing the settings for the monitor drivers, always 
select the Windows VGA driver first, reboot and then change the driver 
by right clicking the mouse button on the desktop, select settings and 
then change dispay type, then change adaptar type. See how this goes.
regards, Paul