Display on Equium M40X - no widescreen with XP

When I boot up, the display is "full screen" until XP loads and then it is displayed as though it is a normal monitor (with a black strip down each side) and not widescreen.
I've booted in Safe mode and the display stays full widescreen.
I then reloaded the display drivers from the Toshiba site and it makes no difference.
Any ideas please?

Hi,
Thanks for your reply, I've checked in the bios and the stretch is enabled. The unit has the intel chipset so I've installed the correct driver (I think) that the driver download page said to.
When I am installing the driver, the instruction tells me that an option screen should come up in the early stages of the driver installation, this is where I think that the display size should be selected. Unfortunately this screen option doesn't appear and the driver just loads.
When I go to select the display size in control panel, I only get the option of 1024 x 768, there is no larger option to select.
If I stretch the screen using the display in control panel, it distorts the display so that everything is just horizontally stretched and the clarity is gone from the screen.
I''m sure that there should be another option available when I load the driver but nothing comes up.
Still puzzled
Dave

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