Problem Solver Required!

[flydoc]

Heres a curious one, or maybe not, since I am not that computer savvy...

Bought a new Acer Travelmate 8106WLMi laptop. The Win XP Pro is now fully patched. Noticed some websites do not load properly, an example is www.flysaa.com The specials that are listed in the top left hand side are all corrupt. Another web site is the UK National Lottery (poor mans dream, I know) www.national-lottery.co.uk some of the buttons in "my account" are overlapping text.

Now, I have a slightly older Acer with XP Pro (fully patched) and these websites load fine.

So on my new laptop I decided to install Firefox (but kept IE on it) to see if it was an IE problem or not. The same websites given as an example above are corrupted in the exactly the same manner in Firefox!

Also, as an aside, some applications, such as MS Anti-Spyware have some corrupted graphics, for example the splash screen is slightly skew, and the blue are below the tool bar is skew...



Some other info, the machine has an ATI Radeon Mobility X700 graphics card (drivers up to date) with 128MB ram, I am running at the top resolution 1680 x 1050, and 32bit colour quality. I have tried running at lower resolutions but the same effects described above are still there.

Any ideas appreciated. My hat goes off to anyone who can solve this for me.

Thanks!
Doc

[snooker]

Hi ... It might be because you need to install java technology , Have a view at this website below and see if you have it install , If not ? Just click the download section...

http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

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[sourcez]

Yes might be java, but that shouldnt affect the graphics that much.
Some manufacturers supply drivers for the flat panels in the screen?

It sounds like some corrupted files, you have a decent graphics card for a laptop but you might just want to "uninstall" it and then reinstall it using device manager.

Good luck

[flydoc]

Thanks for the help so far. I actually now think it could be that I am using a WIDE-SCREEN laptop and some websites, and applications may not display properly on the wide-screen.

The website www.flysaa.com is distorted on another wide-screen laptop, but not on a normal screen laptop.

Is this a possibility?

Thanks
Doc

[snooker]

Then it seem that you need to adjust your screen resolution to fit correctly with your wide screen , Also you should have a look at your screen refresh rate