Hi, what wxactly did you do to solve it? I'm having a very similar problem with an HP dv1000.
Everything is compressed in the left half of the screen. From the moment I press the power button, the first screen is already compressed on the left. If I go to the BIOS setup, it is also compressed on the left half. I can see everything that was supposed to show on the full screen, but it is half the width it was supposed to be.
It's my girlfriend's notebook, and she does not know what happened. I'm sure it did not fall nor has had contact with water.
Please help!
Thanks,
Jose Eduardo