nightmare with screen resolution

[soratron]

Hi I'm fixing up my old hp mini 1000 series for my dad to use but the problem is that about an inch of the screen is a solid black on the right side the bottom repeats itself and the top left is a square that you have to scroll left right and up and down to see anything it happened after i accidently deleted things on the small hdd some old programs i didn't need so I think i deleted something i shouldn't have and in the setings for monitor it wont let me change it from 800x600 to 1024x760 32 bit true color.

So if anyone can help I would really be greatfull.

[ChalkTaster]

Probably video card drivers.

[soratron]

i unistalled reinstalled the monitor driver with on apperant change.

[Kouen Hasuki]

Reinstall all the dell drivers from the dell website

[soratron]

it's not a dell it's an hp 1030NR mini netbook running windows xp.

[MaslowK]

it's not a dell it's an hp 1030NR mini netbook running windows xp.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...roduct=3832488 <--- this?

[soratron]

Yes that's the one. One more question if I made a reboot disc for this in case this driver download does absolutely nothing would fix it or did I really damage my system because I slipped on ice once at high school and cracked the original FI screen so could that also be a party of the problem?

[MaslowK]

Sorry for the late reply. If by reboot disc you mean like a system wipe disk, sure; you could even just do a full clean install. I would however try completely removing or rolling back the drivers associated with the video chipset (likely labeled Display Adapters) before resorting to this.

What do you mean by FI screen? What part is physically damaged, if any?