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I had a problem with the motherboard of my PC (an old PC with an old motherboard) and I decided to change it taking a similar one.
I got a ROCKY-4786EVG-RS-R41 (the same brand of the old one and the only one with system chipset Intel 865 and ICH5).
I swapped the boards but the result is that my software doesn't fit in the screen.
It seems that resolution of my software is setted bigger than the OS.
I'm not a Linux expert (I can say I'm really a beginner) and I'm using an old Linux version (Linux SuSE 9.0 with Kernel 2.4.21-99-DEFAULT) and I can't upgrade it.
I tried already to instal the i865 driver with konqueror and YaST but no luck at the moment.
you most probably have a different graphic chip in the new mother board and your system doesn't know how to deal with it, thus changing (i guess lowering) resolution as it defaults to some default driver.
somewhere in your desktop environment must be a gui for changing screen or monitor resolutions, try playing with that.
you yourself pointed out that your linux version is old (which is putting it mildly) - if you have to update drivers or the kernel, it will most probably not work.
you should be glad your system is working at all right now.
but for the sake of helpfulness, post the outputs of "xrandr", "lspci" and "lsmod" (each command entered into a terminal).
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