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Dell Monitor w/ NVidia GeForce fits half the screen
OK I recently formatted a computer, reloaded Windows XP adn began to update the drivers. The computer is a dell dimension 8300. I used the DELL resource cd to update the drivers. I installed this driver for the video card "Dimension 8300 / 8300N Windows XP Drivers > nVidia 128 MB DDR Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 Rev: A00-00" everything seems to work ok, then i go to control panel display and change setting back to 1024/768 and it only fits on half the screeen.. I really want that old setting back for the display.. It was original,ly set at that resolution, no hardware changes. Any ideas what I could do? Thanks in advance!!! Would love to get this going tonight....
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Is this an LCD screen? If it is, you need to see if the monitor has a "stretch to fit" option when displaying. Otherwise, you need the same pixel resolution as the screen.
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I got the monitor to work by rebooting a few times,I changed nothing.. I think the monitor itself did a calibration. Everything is centered... This will happen again when i format... This is the second time it has happened to me.. Wish there was a way to prevent it from happening next time... Everybody will share thiese points.. I wish I knew how to end the question without giving everbody points.. That would only be fair.. OK thanks again for trying!!
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