Major Display Issues.

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Bear with me I am going to be thourough by brief. I have an inspiron 8200 with the NVidia GeForce 2 Go 32 mb, the pixels started going out right after the warrenty when out. After replacing the lcd, the display is now off center, kind of right justified. I have checked the settings and it wants to stay on the multiple monitors option at 1600x1200. I have tried reloading the driver to no avail. When hooked up to a external monitor the display is perfect.   Is this something with the new LCD we installed, the video card, or a setting that I am just over looking??? I don't want to replace something if it's not neccisary .. that and I am in a bit of a time constraint if my hubby is going to be able to take in on deployment.   any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I'm sure I prolly left something out not sure though. Thanks

funtoupgrade · Answer

Sounds like you may be trying to run it at higher resolution than designed for. Try moving the resolution down one notch and see if it helps. If the external monitor works fine as you say, then the video card should be ok. If fooling with the resolution adjustment does not solve the problem, then you might try reseating all of the video ribbon cable plugs.

NavyWife04 · Answer

I have tried that. I can only chage the resolution by going into safe mode, but as soon I reboot it, I get a errror that I am running it at a reolution it doesn't like and it changes back. I have also checked and reset the cable and that didn't change anything either. It works just fine when hooked up to an external monitor though my husband can't very well take a CRT with him on deployment. Is there anyway I can test it to find out if it's the cable, video card or the monitor. Without the expense of replacing them all first??

funtoupgrade · Answer

Which version of Windows are you running?

NavyWife04 · Answer

XP SP2 I should also say that it's off centered as well like everything has shifted to the right and down about an inch or so.

NavyWife04 · Answer

Nvidia 6/24/2003 4.4.8.2

funtoupgrade · Answer

Let's try to see which video driver you have installed. Go to control panel, then system, then hardware, then device manager, then "display adapter" tab. Right click on whatever shows up under adapter tab and choose "properties", then "driver" tab and report back the first 3 entries (Driver Provider, Driver date, & Driver version).

funtoupgrade · Answer

There is a later video driver at this link:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_8200&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=1002&devlib=6&category=6&releaseid=R66301

I suggest you download it and give it a try. Your current driver could be corrupt and this will solve the problem.

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