Widescreen Problem

Defiler

Defiler

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One of my parents friends recently purchased a Samsung 2333SW , glossy black , stylish curve design , 23" Wide lcd ; with MagicBright3 + MagicTune , Full HD 1920x1080 (WUGA+) ; brightness- 300cd/m2 ; DC contrast ratio- 20000:1 , response time- 5ms , 100mm vesa-wall mountable - d-sub+Dvi...

The problem is that the monitor is connected to a ancient computers onboard vga connection (onboard intel) which does output the native resolution 1920x1080 @ 60hrz, but the screen image does not fill the screen, there are two thick black lines on either side of the windows desktop. I was going to install one of my old agp cards to see if that would fix the problem, only to find out that the computer has no agp port...

So I was asked if a new computer would resolve this problem, well im asuming it will... Does this problem have something to do with flat panel scaling?, would a new computers onboard vga work without any problems?, or would I require a real graphics card (ati /nvidia) with dvi out? The computer is used for nothing other than e-mail, word / excel etc.
 
As far as I know even a new PC's onboard GFX won't display the native res of the 2333SW, you will need to get a new pc with graphics card unfortunately. But don't quote me on this.
 
It actually does allow me to select 1920x1080 and apply without any problems other than the screen image is not full. Also played around with the monitor settings by selecting auto and widescreen mode which does nothing.
 
The onboard cards of various PCs I have worked with work fine with the 2333. It sounds like the VGA is being scaled to 4:3 somehow, either a setting on the screen, or on the display card? Dont have a 2333 in front of me to check.... Have you updated the monitor drivers?
 
Thats strange, then maybe it is a sclaing issue as Conradl mentioned. Check around for that option.
 
I think im just going to go collect the monitor and test it out on my pc + a few other graphics cards including onboard to see what happens just to make sure.
 
Can dsub even do 1920x1080?

Why not just use 1680x960 or something?

You do get pci graphics cards...
 
I have my 2333SW screen size set to Auto on the Menu (top button) -> Setup (5th icon down) -> Image Size menu - not set to Wide
My nVidia graphics card is set to 1920x1080, 60 Hertz.
Make sure you install the driver, so the graphics card/Windows picks it up correctly.

What onboard graphics do you have - ATI or nVidia (or other) ?
 
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