Diesplay resolution problem

[imported_Salamander]

I am running Windoes 7RC, Build 7100. My monitor is an HP w2007. All of a suddent today, the display on my screen refuses to fill the entire screen unless I put the resolution on the recommended resolution of 1680 X 1050. At that resolution, I have to set the DPI over 160% for the text to be big enough to read.

I had not made any hardware or software changes before this happened, and I was able to run the resolutuon at 1280 X 800 and have the entire screen filled. I tried uninstalling the graphics drivers and the Catalyst Control Center - made no difference. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Try the monitor on a differnt PC. Couldbe a hardware issue with the monitor.

 

[imported_Salamander]

I'll try and check that tomorrow when I can get to another desktop. In the meantime, I've noticed that in Firefox everything is really, really large - while in Inter Explorer, all the Office applications, and everything else the fonts and type is small. Does this give any insight?

 

[Paperlantern]

ATI in my experience has never been fantastic with thier drivers, however, the software is correct, 1680 x 1050 is the native res for that monitor, Everything else wont look quite as clear. LCDs always have thier own quirks when working outside of thier native. Try running the newest driver from ATI, see if you can get your desired res. I'm not sure what else to say, the software is giving you the res the monitor was designed to use.

 

[oynaz]

Try setting the resolution to 1200x800 and use the monitor's auto adjust.

But you might want to consider adjusting text size and zooming instead. This will often give you a better result.