17 inch LCD requires a 1280 x 1024 native resolution...  Go into Display Properties to reset the monitor resolution.  Right click an empty space on the desktop, click on Settings, than slide the monitor resolution bar to the right to its native 1280 x 1024.  Click Apply.  The screen will go blank for a second or two, than another window will open in the upper left side asking you if you wish to keep the new settings.  Click OK.   Hope this is what you are asking.

Thanks.  But that is not my question.  (Actually, I tried that to see if would set everything and correct the problem.  It did not.)   If this were a CRT, I believe the problem would be described as overscan.  The image is too large for the screen, so part of the image is being lost.  I would like to made the image smaller; that would end the overscanning problem.  On CRT monitors, there is such a option.  There does NOT seem to be such an option in the onscreen menu for the E171FPb.  I am hoping that there is some software setting that will handle it.

How about trying the reset button or uninstall the video driver, and install another to see if it might help ?

Message Edited by SR45 on 12-14-2005 06:15 AM

Thanks again.  Unfortunately, I had already tried what you suggest:  reset button; reinstalling the video driver; and updating the video driver.  I also tried to change screen resolution, hoping that would force a hard reset of the sytem.  I even tried leaving the monitor/computer without power for several hours.  Same result:  the screen is still overscanning by about 1/2 the width of the scroll bar.

Is it possible to try another LCD monitor or to hook up the new monitor to another system to see if it is the system, or the monitor that is the problem ?   Good luck