Monitor Help!

Posted in ask Khem but hoping in here will garner more help

Just bought a Samsung 22' LCD Monitor. Have updated vid drivers, installed the monitor drivers etc, but roughly 90% of websites don't take up the entire window.
I'm running the res at the suggested 1600 by 1250. When I've tried dropping it back, it either looks shit house, or isn't wide screen so i get the black border look


Doin my fkn head in, anyone help would be greatly appreciated\


cheers

not 100% sure what you mean but aren't some websites are designed with certain resolutions in mind? i'm not sure. can you do a screen capture and post it up?

IIRC on the Samsung's there's this magic touch button on the bottom right hand corner called Auto something or other, my mate had some issues with the desktop cut off the edges and shit and I hit this button and it auto resized and centred it all beautifully...

yeah I've asked a few people now, and they've said some sites aren't designed for wide screen yet so guessin that's it

lol and glock mate, when i hit that auto button it tells me the fuckers not available!

I'd say it would be the websties, as if they aren't designed for widescreen then they are going to look like shit being stretched right out. Only thing I'd suggest is check pages which have a horizontal scroll bar usually. If it's not there then it should be working fine.

yer there's no scroll bars, It just centres itself in the middle of the window. All good

cheers for ya help guys

if you are using the DVI cable and not the VGA cable then there is no automatic picture adjust

you're selling what now?

 

Try plugging the other doo dad cable from the back of the monitor into the hole plug things on the computer box.

yeah my vid card doesnt have the port thingy needed for the other cord


Nudge if you were a real mate you'd come home for a day and have a look at it for me

Selfish cunt

try updating your motherboard chipset drivers too. every piece of hardware has to 'talk' with it, so if it cant understand whats going on, then it wont work properly.

is it the whole screen that isn't lined up or is it just your internet browser. if it's just internet explorer then disregard my presvious comment that made no sense to you anyway!

just some websites. for example, AM is fine, Facebook not so much

yeah facebook is designed for a certain size by the looks of things, doesn't fill out the whole screen on here either just centres itself in the browser

edit - apart from the chat shit

facebook uses the whole screen; the lil notification bubble is in the far corner. it's not a setting you can alter anyway - it's in web page design.

I just had a thought...right click on the desktop and check your advanced graphics settings for the automatic resize option where it will give you the choice of something like, 'keep aspect ratio', 'stretch to borders' or 'center image'. Pick the stretch option and it should resize stuff to the edges automatically when it detects it as not the correct ratio.

I only see thqat for desktop stuff

I reckon Quaz only started this thread to boast about his 22 inches!

lol

not at all-any help would be appreciated. I'm not down with my font either.

A net browser falls into that category right?

Pretty sure web pages work differently though. Because some pages would look like crap if they were forced to stretch right out.

still can't get it right. 1600 by 1250 or what ever it is(the highest one) is too fine or somethin. But if i drop it down, its blury etc

frustrating

video card ??

ideally the vid card should be setup to output the exact rez of the screen
makes sense right?

is the actual rez of the screen 1600 x 1250?



maybe a DVI --> VGA adaptor would help you

yeah it is

I'll get a nerd to come round and have a look

Just punch it. Solves most of my computer issues.

Percussive maintenance FTW.

i had a TV like that. would just randomly turn off sometimes so one time i just slapped it in anger and it came back on
same thing worked from then on.

i used to have a tv like that too. amazing what a love punch will do.

1680x1050 is the native resolution of your screen, there are physically that many pixels (1680 horizontal x 1050 vertical) on your screen, so that if your video card is putting out a different resolution, your screen will do a horribly shit job of blending and what not to try to represent that on it's 1680x1050 pixels.  if you're using an LCD you have to use the native resolution if you want to get decent quality.

20 and 22 inch screens are generally all 1680x1050, and so if you've got a 22" at that res and it's too fine i think you just need to be sitting closer...

not sure what you mean about the browser thing, having a bit of trouble getting that one