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New monitor + black bars

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September 5, 2014 10:14:37 AM

Hi Im having a problem with my new monitor. After I plugged LG Flatron L245WP (24", 1920x1200) I get black bars at the bottom and right side of the screen. The image is also shifted to the left, so I cant see like a 1/4 of the screen (e.g. where the start menu is). When I change the resolution to 1920x1080 I dont get the black bars anymore, however the image is incomplete (missing those 120 pixels). I have read that it has to do something with overscan, but changing those setting in in nvidia control panel hasnt fixed the problem.

BTW: I have Intel i3-540, Gigabyte H55M-UD2H MB and GTX 460 graphic card

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a b C Monitor
September 5, 2014 10:51:22 AM

Have you changed the settings in the monitor's menu at all? It could be a setting on the monitor itself causing the problem. If you have another PC/laptop around you can try plugging that in to check if its working with that.
September 5, 2014 11:00:15 AM

I checked every setting in the monitor. Other than basic settings like input, language, brightness there are some settings like auto-configure, clock, phase, position ... however they are greyed out and I dunno why. This LCD has component, VGA and HDMI inputs and I only tried HDMI so maybe with VGA they would work ...
I tried connecting notebook the the monitor and I had the same problem. IMO it is a software problem though.
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a b C Monitor
September 5, 2014 11:08:31 AM

If you have the same issue on multiple devices I doubt it's a PC software issue. It could be the HDMI input of the monitor, and it's odd that the settings are greyed out. Does the manual that came with the monitor have any setup instructions?
September 5, 2014 11:22:21 AM

I have just read the manual, the options that are greyed out are for analogue signal only. So it makes sense, that they are greyed out when using HDMI.
a b C Monitor
September 5, 2014 11:44:44 AM

Have you tried updating your video drivers?

Do you have a different cable you can try? DVI/VGA?
September 5, 2014 11:51:51 AM

Yes I updated my graphics driver. The monitor has VGA and HDMI inputs and I tried DVI (PC) - HDMI (Monitor) and HDMI - HDMI and it still does the same. I havent tried VGA yet (cant find it at the moment), but the quality would be probably worse compared to HDMI.
a b C Monitor
September 5, 2014 12:04:45 PM

Have you tried disabling "HDMI - HDTV Audio" in the nVidia drivers? I know that used to cause some issues when running at 19920x1200 instead of 1920x1080.
September 5, 2014 12:17:19 PM

I dont see that option.
September 6, 2014 3:16:46 AM

OK I have just tried VGA cable and everything works perfectly, no black bars or anything. My only concern is that the quality is probably worse compared to DVI or HDMI.
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