Widescreen Monitor

[powderpuff]

I recently purchased a Samsung F-2380. The advertised resolution is 1920 x 1080.

Running win XP Pro SP3. Graphics card is a 7 series NVIDIA.

The problem is: When I crank it up to the highest resolution my desktop is waaay too wide. As I move my cursor across the screen horizontally the desktop scrolls. I am unable to see the entire desktop unless I lower the rez to 1024 X 768. No lower setting in between works either.

Anyone got any insight into what I need to do? btw - Have got the latest NVIDA driver installed.

Any suggestions welcome - before I have to take it back to Pantip Plaza.

Thank You

[richardt1808]

hi,

Weird. I had the same issue with another monitor last week - but is was seriously zoomed in, almost as though it was an actual zoom and scroll program. I just re-booted the PC and things were normal. I guess you have tried the monitor has a menu which allows stretch or compression of the screen on vertical or horizonal axes ? I would try with another PC or monitor before going all the way back to the shop and I am guessing that it is more likely a PC thing than your new monitor so Moore's law says that when you walk in with the monitor, the tech guy is going to tell you the monitor is fine and blame the PC

[powderpuff]

Yeah Sod's law. Thanks for the input. Rebooted many times.

[Jdietz]

Yeah monitor is most likely fine. It looks like your PC doesn't recognize the monitor and sets it to a 'safe' default 1024x768.

- Check the monitor setup menu (should be some buttons on your monitor) see if it isn't set to a fixed resolution or anything like that.

- Check your monitor cable, replace it with the one that came with the new monitor, new monitors need more wires to send back their configuration. Get rid of the VGA cable and use the shiny new one if your card supports it.

- Check that your driver really installed correctly, reboot in safe mode, remove it totally, reboot normally, re-install.

- Check your monitor settings (right-click desktop, settings, advanced, monitor or somewhere around there), it should tell you the max res of that monitor.

- If all fails, call in your local geek.

[GingerLing]

Yeah Sod's law. Thanks for the input. Rebooted many times.

There will be an option in the monitor menu, accessible through buttons on the monitor, to 'Auto Configure'. This will allow the monitor to re-sync to the signal as it changes from 768 lines to your widescreen resolution.

The reason the monitor seems OK after a reboot is because the signal from the computer is lost when rebooting, then the monitor gets a signal as the computer restartes and has to 'Auto Configure'.

M

[Jdietz]

I found this post on another board, maybe this will help you. You may want to go back to an older NVidia driver as well:

Re: Desktop high resolution scrolling/shifting problem

Ok, the problem got solved, i am yet to fully understand the why.. but here are the steps i performed..

On Nvidia display properties:

1) Went to desktop scaling, checked if native resolution was being detected correctly

2)On to custom resolution tried the native resolution (full HD) in this case.

3)Resolution did not get accepted when tested. clicked OK to this dialog box

4) on main page clicked on cancel... noticed that native resolution field had got updated with with 1920X1080 automatically. Clicked on Apply... and BINGO !!

Conclusion: Apparently there is problem with 175.9 version of Nvidia graphics drivers. Desktop scrolling begins if high resolution is applied. Display resolution is actually like 1280 X *** pixels, which happens to scroll as you move your cursor to right of the screen.

[powderpuff]

Yeah monitor is most likely fine. It looks like your PC doesn't recognize the monitor and sets it to a 'safe' default 1024x768.

- Check the monitor setup menu (should be some buttons on your monitor) see if it isn't set to a fixed resolution or anything like that.

- Check your monitor cable, replace it with the one that came with the new monitor, new monitors need more wires to send back their configuration. Get rid of the VGA cable and use the shiny new one if your card supports it.

- Check that your driver really installed correctly, reboot in safe mode, remove it totally, reboot normally, re-install.

- Check your monitor settings (right-click desktop, settings, advanced, monitor or somewhere around there), it should tell you the max res of that monitor.

- If all fails, call in your local geek.

You didn't read my post very well.

I can set the resolution to the max setting (Control Panel>Display>Settings) Problem is my desktop is way too wide & it won't fit on the screen. If I move the cursor as far as possible left or right it will drag the desktop to the extreme edge.

Already using DVI cable.

I will fiddle with the OSD.

NVIDIA driver 195.62 WINXP 32 bit