Just Curious: Cropping Display for "Less than Ideal" Resolutions?

Hey there, its me again. This isn't a "life or death" type of thing, more just a "curiosity"; 'cuz I remember back when I had my classic hp zt1250, whenever the resolution was less than its full capabilities (1024X768), it would resize the input to the correct size, so for example if you were say, installing Windows (where the installer is only 640X480 or 800X600 or somethin' like that), instead of stretching it to the full screen and making it look crappy, it would box it in so that it would only take up those 800X600 or 640X480 pixels of the screen (in the end, you'd see a black box around the part of the screen where there was an image). On a laptop with such an awkward aspect ratio, it bugs me how the "Starting Windows" animation is stretched out (trivial, I know) because it is only in 1024X769 instead of the machine's native 1280X800 Resolution, so I was wondering if this is corrected in a BIOS update somewhere or if it was "Just another one of those oversights" on these fancy "Newish" laptops.
Thanks.
Dr Robinson

yigit wrote:
have you read installation instructions?
you may need to use dos to flash bios upgrade.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-68504
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-67975
please post type and windows that you are using ( 32/64 bit xp/vista/7 )
Maybe it was just me, but I couldn't find anything in the instructions for updating outside of WinPhlash.
?? http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/68et37ww.txt
It does say something about not functioning in 64 Bit Windows, so that may be our problem.
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