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November 25th, 2010 07:00
Black border around desktop
I have a Dell Studio XPS 8100 with a Dell ST2310 monitor and ATI Raedon HD5670 graphics card. The monitor is connected by an HDMI cable. When first installed the monitor displayed a full screen image (edge to edge, no border). Now there is a half to one inch black border around the image. This occurred after the system was dormant and in sleep mode overnight. On awakening the border was present. I have uninstalled and allowed the driver to be reinstalled from the CD. No new software was installed and no Windows updates hadbeen installed. I did run CCleaner on the registry but restored it from the backup
Does anyone have any idea how to get the monitor to again display a full screen image?
Thanks
Bill
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DELL-Chris M
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November 25th, 2010 14:00
The Ati Catalyst scaling default is set to around 7.5 under scan which causes wide screen displays to show thick black borders around all 4 sides of the display.
* Right click on the Desktop
* Open Catalyst Control Center
* Switch to Advanced mode
* Click the Dropdown Menu Graphics in the top Right
* Select Desktops and Displays
* Right click on Currently Active Display. This part is very crucial. There is a little picture of a tiny Monitor and tiny Arrow at the far bottom left of the CCC menu. It is this tiny Arrow that you left click on by the button that says Basic and the button that says OK. When you click on the little black arrow (not the Big Black Arrow in the middle of the CCC window, you will get the option to click Configure. Then the following 6 buttons will be available to you:
Attributes
Avivo Color
Scaling Options
HDTV Support
LCD Overdrive
Pixel Format
* Under Attributes, check the Enable GPU scaling box and the Scale image to full panel size
* Click Apply
* Select Configure
* Click on the Scaling Options tab
* Move the scale to the right until you get a full screen image 0%
* Click OK