Screen resolution issues on Vista

[cowellarj]

Hi,

Hopefully some of you good people can help me out with this problem.
I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition with an Abit
il-90Mv motherboard. I have the latest Intel 945GM chipset drivers
installed and my television is a Samsung LE26R74BD.
My problem is I do not seem to have a resolution available which fills
the whole screen. I'm currently using the 720p resolution (1280x720),
but this seems to be slightly bigger than the screen and subsequently
all 4 edges are chopped off. Just to add to the confusion, my LCD
television manual says 1360x768 is the optimum resolution.
Any suggestions gratefully receiv ed.

Andrew

 

[Adam Albright]

Hi,

Hopefully some of you good people can help me out with this problem.
I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition with an Abit
il-90Mv motherboard. I have the latest Intel 945GM chipset drivers
installed and my television is a Samsung LE26R74BD.
My problem is I do not seem to have a resolution available which fills
the whole screen. I'm currently using the 720p resolution (1280x720),
but this seems to be slightly bigger than the screen and subsequently
all 4 edges are chopped off. Just to add to the confusion, my LCD
television manual says 1360x768 is the optimum resolution.
Any suggestions gratefully receiv ed.

Andrew

Many graphic cards have some tweaks you can get to from somewhere in
Control Panel if they don't have a control sitting on the Task Bar
that adjusts the size of the picture. Depending on how you have your
monitor/tv hooked (which input composite, component, HMI, whatever
some may either shrink or bloat the size of the picture until you
match up the input correctly.

If not, surely you TV/monitor does, probably on screen, but you'll
need to dig out your manual to see how to adjust. Newer monitors,
assuming yours is pretty new probably has multiple input/output
settings you can tweak seperately.

My guess off the top of my head is the problem is morely likey with
your monitor/tv. Time to dig out the manual and carefully review how
it accepts input from a computer. Different makes, even models within
the same make differ as to what you need to do.

Funny sidebar:

I visited my cousin awhile back in Michigan and she and her husband
were miffed that their new large screen LCD TV they just bought no
matter what they did had muffled sound, sometimes so bad you could
hardy hear any audio even with the volume way up, but only on some
channels. They were about ready to lug it back to the store.

They asked me to look at it first, actually listen, I did, then asked
for the manual. Burried in it was a setting that said by default
speakers are set to mono. Well duh, that's dumb, but easy to change to
stereo from a simple menu choice that was hidden several layers down.
Bingo, that was it!

You may also wish to look in your monitor's manual. See if there is
reference to a setup or ini file. If there is you need to install that
which will better control the monitor compared to the driver is may be
using by default. If you don't have one may find same on the vendor's
web site or doing a Goggle search.

 

[Beck]

Hi,

Hopefully some of you good people can help me out with this problem.
I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition with an Abit
il-90Mv motherboard. I have the latest Intel 945GM chipset drivers
installed and my television is a Samsung LE26R74BD.
My problem is I do not seem to have a resolution available which fills
the whole screen. I'm currently using the 720p resolution (1280x720),
but this seems to be slightly bigger than the screen and subsequently
all 4 edges are chopped off. Just to add to the confusion, my LCD
television manual says 1360x768 is the optimum resolution.
Any suggestions gratefully receiv ed.

Try changing the refresh rate in the settings if you can. Sometimes this
can give a strange picture setting.