Studio 1537 + Win 7 x64 + Radeon 3450 = Black Border Around Desktop w/ HDMI Out

anyone have an idea?

Dell will tell you there in no Win 7 Video driver set for the studio 1537 laptop that has the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 installed and if you go to the support page and put in your service tag it only has Vista drivers. However if you select the Studio 1555 which also uses a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 video card they do list Video drivers for Win 7 for this device(http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=W764&catid=-1&dateid=-1&impid=-1&osl=EN&typeid=-1&formatid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=STUDIO1555&hidos=WLH&hidlang=en&TabIndex=) . When you install this driver you get the Catalyst Cntrl app and you can use this to scale the picture to get a full display(just load the Catalyst app and select Scaling).

It is a discrace that dell do not bother listing this driver set for the Studio 1537 when you go onto the support site entering your service tag as it uses the same card as the 1555. Dell also show a Win 7 compatibility table listing the 1555 as Win 7 compatible but the 1537 as Not, go figure. I have Win 7 installed and running perfectly now on my Studio 1537.

AWESOME!!!  it looks like you signed up just to reply, so i really appreciate that.  i'll go ahead and install everything, but it'll be a few days before i can try it out and say whether it works or not.  i expect it to work, since its the same card.  thanks again.

It worked fine for me and that was after days of installing(or trying) driver sets from AMD(CCC would not install) and the Vista driver from Dell untill I got the idea to look for a Dell Win 7 driver for the Radeon 3450 and to my surprise I found one(as above). The issue is scaling which the vista driver does not do because it does not install the Catalyst app which you need to change the scaling setting. Just be sure to uninstall you existing Video drivers first, I uninstalled the Video card making sure to tick remove drivers as well and then booted into safe mode and ran Driver.Cleaner.Net, rebooted and installed the Win 7 driver set. Booting into Safe mode and running Driver.Cleaner might be a bit overkill but thats just me. Anyway when you do install the Win 7 driver you will also have the Catalyst Cntrl Cntr installed. Run this(CCC) and make sure to select Advanced Mode over Basic. You will have to have the Laptop connected to a Display(or TV) via HDMI for the setting to become available. On the scaling menu it will identify the display you are connected to and here is a slider on the scaling menu and you just move this up untill you see the screen filling out(no black borders) and then hit apply, thats it. Best of luck. If you need any more info just post back, I'll keep an eye on this thread over the next few days.

i installed it last night (right after replying here), and everything seemed to go fine.  my older crt hdtv doesnt have hdmi, and my 2nd monitor is vga, so i'll have to wait a few days until i go back to work to see if it fixed the problem.  i just uninstalled all the old ati stuff, ran the driver setup regularly and everything worked fine for me. 

i googled high and low for the right driver and CCC, but even their web site lists a windows 7 version (v10) i think.  i got it installed, but it seemed to be lacking features.  and of course it didnt work right with the 2nd display.

so like i said, it'll be a few days before i can try it out, but when i do i'll post back here with results.  hopefully it does the trick though. 

thanks again.

Just a heads up. The Video driver I used is a Dell one(R227577.exe) that is listed under Video on the Studio 1555 laptop driver page. Just be sure to select Win 7 64bit on the drop down box on top of the page.This driver set also installs the CCC app.