Overscanning Monitor

[Bridon Bear]

I Have a little 'niggle' with my wife's monitor, the problem is that every now and then, it will overscan slightly to the extent that the clock in the lower R/H corner is unable to be read as the minute part of the display is off screen....also you are prevented from clicking the little red cross at top right to close a window all due to the overscanning problem.

Tried everthing and the only solution is to re-boot the PC...then all is fine....until it decides to do it again.

I know it is a cheapy but other than this the monitor performs very well with no dead pixels or anything...just wondered if any technophobes had a solution to this little 'niggle'

The monitor is a 19" GNR widescreen monitor 1440x900 resolution model name: MW19E-AAAD.

Regards


Bridon Bear

[Techy111]

Is it doing it with Vista or XP BB...?

Tony

[Bridon Bear]

Sorry Tony...forgot to mention....WinXP Home Edition 2002 with SP3 (this fault was there before SP3 btw)

Regards


Bridon Bear

[Techy111]

When you right click and goto display properties....is there a tick on "Extend the desktop on this monitor"....?

Tony

[Bridon Bear]

No Tony....Just screen res and colour quality then on advanced I have screen refresh rate that is all :-(

regards


Bridon Bear

[Techy111]

Maybe we need to look at what card you got and what Driver..?

Tony

[Bridon Bear]

Right.....

GForce 8500 GT 512mb Driver version 6.14.11.6371 (17/09/2007)

Regards

Bridon Bear

[Techy111]

I would definitely update the driver BB...?

let us know mate....?

Tony

[Bridon Bear]

OK...just found the latest driver on nvidea Version 182.06 dated 18/02/2009 at 115mb.

Will install that and give it a try...the overscan is intermittant but usually troubles us every 2-3 days so will let you know the results.....many thanks for the advice.

Regards


Bridon Bear

[Bridon Bear]

Installed the new driver...no problem there...bang up to date now.

All fine for 3 days then today it overscanned ...a quick reboot sorted it out but the mystery prevails...

The good news is that I have the same graphic card on my PC (non widescreen monitor) so updated mine as well and FSX fr increased by about 20% so well pleased with that.

Maybe one of those things this overscan thingy.... :-(

Regards

Bridon Bear