Ultra-wide Monitor Boot/BIOS Text Stretched, Mangled And Unreadable

tackyjan

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Hello All!

I just purchased an ultra-wide monitor from Asus. It's the PB298Q 29" 2560 x 1080 resolution AH-IPS LED display. Here is the official page for the monitor:

http://www.asus.com/Monitors_Projectors/PB298Q/

Everything works fine in Windows 8.1. Display is beautiful, etc. The problem I am having is that when my computer boots having such a wide display causes the "DOS" text to stretch to the point where it's about 90% unreadable.

This is fine for just booting up but if I go into my BIOS I can't read hardly anything. The letters are not only stretched but they seem to be scrambled too.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? Like configure my display such that, until it boots into Windows, it "shrinks" the display width (using black borders on the left/right, etc.) so that the text appears normal?

Thank you.

Jan
 
Solution
You've got configuration controls on the front of the monitor where you can adjust sizing, set it to what's comfortable whil in the BIOS then simply change it back for the computer