Toshiba Tecra A8 display resizes to 4:3 when an External display is used

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Published on 2012-09-23T05:27:54Z Indexed on 2012/09/26 21:50 UTC
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I am very new to this so please excuse me if the solution is simple. I am running an old Toshiba Tecra A8 laptop and the screen is fine until I attach an external monitor via VGA then the laptops monitor resizes itself and changes ratios to 3:4 is there a fix for this or am I out of luck?

As additional information:

I have tried 3 or 4 different monitors and it happens with all of them, except that the external monitors hold the 3:4 display ration but get stretched out.

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