bigmessowires
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Hi everyone, I recently acquired an iBook G3 800 MHz, and Mac OS 9.2.2 won't seem to fill the laptop's entire screen. It works normally under OSX, and also is fine when first booting up 9.2.2. But midway through the 9.2.2 boot process, while it's loading extensions, the screen suddenly shrinks and shows a 640x480 (or maybe 1024x768?) desktop centered on the LCD and surrounded by black.
In the monitors control panel, there's only one option listed for the resolution, so I can't change it. But strangely, it claims I have two monitors! Maybe there's a hardware problem with the external monitor port, and it detects an external monitor even though one isn't there, which somehow triggers this shrunken desktop behavior.
This is a fresh install onto a newly-formatted hard disk from the Universal 9.2.2 Installer CD. There are many unnecessary extensions installed, but when I boot with extensions disabled I still see the same undersized desktop.
In the monitors control panel, there's only one option listed for the resolution, so I can't change it. But strangely, it claims I have two monitors! Maybe there's a hardware problem with the external monitor port, and it detects an external monitor even though one isn't there, which somehow triggers this shrunken desktop behavior.
This is a fresh install onto a newly-formatted hard disk from the Universal 9.2.2 Installer CD. There are many unnecessary extensions installed, but when I boot with extensions disabled I still see the same undersized desktop.