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6/20/2007 6:10:37 AM EDT
Last week i started having the black screen come up on start up.
The OS continues to state I have a floppy disk failure. I do not have one and uninstalled the one listed in the device manager. Vista had even downloaded a driver and stated that the drive was working fine....it still goes through the "f-1 or f-2" option on start up, even though I un-selected the drive in safe mode ("f-2" option).

Also the desktop zoomed to gigantic proportions along with any IE window I tried to use. The IE problem stopped for some reason but I still cannot get the desktop to normal.
I have windows security, Mc Afee, and ran spybot. I am supposed to be clean...
I changed back to my stock Dell mouse/keyboard also.
I tried the desktop adjustments also.

The only clue I have is that I called home during the day the night I discovered this and had my mom (who was at my house watching kids) check my e-mail. She had some problems doing this. She's computer ignorant so an interview with her just causes anyerisms.

I cannot find an answer anywhere.....help me hive.
6/20/2007 6:16:58 AM EDT
[#1]
the floppy disk problem is not a "Vista" problem.   that is a option in your bios,  check your manual  or call the person who built your computer on how to fix that.


the enlarged screen happened to a friend of mines laptop,  im going over to his house this week to figure out whats wrong.    

i've been running vista since it was release.   i also beta tested it and never had that problem.    
6/20/2007 7:01:58 AM EDT
[#2]
Keep me posted on desktop problem. thanks.

I turned the floppy off in the (safe?) "f-2" in start up screen. Still comes back....
6/20/2007 8:08:41 AM EDT
[#3]
Is the whole desktop zoomed or just the icons.

You can dynamically resize the desktop icons in Vista by holding the “Ctrl” key and scrolling the mouse wheel… this may be what happen if so just resize the icons.
6/20/2007 11:06:10 AM EDT
[#4]
Max-Mike you are the man. Don't know how it happened or why it did it like it did...thanks.