Acer H243H Resolution Help

Hello again, i got a new monitor today from Newegg it’s the 24" Acer H243H, it’s an upgrade from an Acer 22", this being the biggest monitor i have ever owned. It’s very nice looking no complaints so far except for one thing. The native resolution also recommended is 1920 x 1080, however when i go into display settings and have it at this setting, there is a 1" black margin on both sides, and a 1/2" black margin top and bottom...so essentially it’s not filling the whole monitor. Is this simply because of this strange resolution, if i put it to say 1680 x 1050 it fills the screen, and looks pretty good, if i make it smaller in reso. It gets stretched sometimes, sometimes blurry, etc.

I was just wondering if anyone has had this problem/experienced it, or may know what to do. I installed the software that came with the CD, but really it’s just the idiot’s button to make it "preferred resolution" and other color adjustments. I tried DLing drivers (not sure if it’s necessary), but i can't get them to work, nor am i certain they will make a difference.

tyvm.

interesting idea, i think i will try...thanks.

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Had a similar issue with my NEC LCD2690WUXi back in April. Setting native resolution actually distorted everything. Uninstalling then reinstalling everything didn't help either.

The only way to have everything look perfectly crisp was to go into ATI's CCC and forced 1920 x 1080; thus lossing 120 rows of pixels.

After about a month of on and off trouble shooting, I concluded that something within Win XP became corrupted and is also affecting the video drivers. I did a fresh install of Win XP. Problem solved.

whats interesting is that, if i set it to 25 or 30Hertz, interlaced, then it does go fullscreen, looks great, .....but flickers. so setting it to 59Hertz or 60 Hertz, the only other settings, it shrinks an inch to a blackframe.