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Hello, Whenever I start my laptop, the windows boot screen and progressive ring are stretched. I've tried updating and rolling back drivers, I've used CMD, and more. I installed Windows 11 about a month ago on unsupported hardware.
NOTE TO ALL OF YOU. UPDATING DOES NOT FIX IT
Someone told me to go back to Windows 10, I did. Not resolved.
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Is the stretching only appearing on the PC manufacturers logo screen before you get into Windows or is the screen also stretched in Windows?
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If Windows is installed in UEFI BIOS Mode, then your drive must have a GPT partition style, if Windows was installed in Legacy BIOS Mode, then your drive would have an MBR partition style.
The OS itself is fine. But its when I startup squished.
The thing is, I don't really have a UEFI menu AT ALL! Because my laptop is from 2011. I only have a BIOS.
If it is just the startup like the PC manufacturers logo screen that is squished, then that is caused by BIOS, not Windows, it cannot be Windows since Windows would not have loaded yet and if your system is from 2011, it is doubtful there would be a BIOS update available to fix that.
what am i to do?
