My new machine has a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 v 3.3 mother board, F10 bios, 17inch Samsung SyncMaster 1280 x 1024 monitor, NVIDIA 7300 GT graphics adapter and Xp Pro SP2 operating system. The screen display is perfect during normal use but on boot up or in safe mode the text and graphics are far too large and disappear off the ends of the display. I can adjust the monitor to correct the problem but that corrupts the normal display.

Is there a way of setting the display size during boot up? Can't find a bios adjustment!

My new machine has a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 v 3.3 mother board, F10 bios, 17inch Samsung SyncMaster 1280 x 1024 monitor, NVIDIA 7300 GT graphics adapter and Xp Pro SP2 operating system. The screen display is perfect during normal use but on boot up or in safe mode the text and graphics are far too large and disappear off the ends of the display. I can adjust the monitor to correct the problem but that corrupts the normal display.

Is there a way of setting the display size during boot up? Can't find a bios adjustment!

It's not uncommon for that to happen. In safe mode & during boot, it's using a (very) generic driver. I'm using a trinitron screen that does much the same on the TNT carded system, but is OK with the ATi carded system.

Driver update *may* help.

Or look in the screen menus to set not to scale to full screen.. That way you usually get a small VGA panel active in the middle of the screen with 1:1 pixel mapping.