Dear all, Which bit of software is responsible for the size of screen on which the initial boot is showed? Usually it is 100% on the desktops. On my laptop however (ThinkPad 760ED) it is about half the size that is available.. Running Bios is no use, because of its poor capabilities. Running TEST shows that it IS possible to use ALL of the available screen. Can you help me?

On some IBM TP's you can press the FN+F8. It make the screen to "full size", on some of the TP models.

The initial Boot screens are in a standard 80 column 25 row text mode that all adapters must support. It is basically the old DOS screen size mode. This is a 720x400 mode. On normal Analog displays, they are preset to accept this. However you have to adjust screen width and hight on some to get it the way you want. When you try to map this to LCD displays, this is a different issue. To make it clear on screen, the hardware often only uses a 720x400 pel area of the LCD display to display the DOS mode text. Trying to stretch it over other resolution displays results in distorted text. If it was a 1280x800 display the BIOS has the option of switching to a 640x400 format which would display clean looking characters. Many laptops now code their BIOS to use a graphics mode instead of a text mode for the initial screens. This is much slower but allows them to use all of the LCD screen.

Dear zintazu, pressing FN+F8 does not help unfortunately. I think my laptop is too old for that... Thanks any way! I honestly did not expect some one to answer. Dear JackG, Your reply is amasingly fullfilling! I now understand that I have to change my BIOS. Or may be try to reinstall my Windows 98. You see, I experimented with Linux with its X window system. If I am not mistaken one can press Ctrl and "+" on Numeric Keypad simultaneously and the screen size changes. I don't know how to that in DOS. I will try to find it before I will have to reinstall my system. Thank you very much!