computer screen not covering window

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Tassie

After playing a DVD, my monitor had a black patch down each side of the
screen. I can't find how to fix this from the "help" section or "trouble
shooting".

I'm unfamiliar with the buttons below the screen. They are different from
the previous Hewlett Packard monitor that I had. This is an IBM, on a pentium
4 with IE7, winxp.

There are 4 buttons. the 3 on the right seem to be for contrast and
brightness, with the one on the left turning them off. when I fiddled around
with all of them I got some kind of menue, but it still doesn't seem to
relate to adjusting the screen size

I would be really grateful of any help on this please.
 
Right click on the Desktop and select Properties (or Control Panel- Display)
On the Settings tab set the screen resolution to 1024x768 or 1280x 1024.

Does that correct the issue?

Regards
Mark Dormer
 
Thanks Mark for answering my question. Unfortunately that resolution makes
every thing on the screen too small.

The strange thing is, the resolution didn't change when the screen changed.
It stayed the same. (at 800 by 600) and because I got the computer second
hand, I don't have a manual for it.
 
One of the buttons will allow you to toggle through all of the monitor
settings, brightness, contrast, vertical position, horizontal position etc.
You will have to experiment with them..

BTW, 1024 x 768 resolution with 120DPI set will make the text on your screen
large enough to read..
 
DEar Mark, thanks for trying to help me.
There is a lot of technical words in the menu that the dictionary didn't
seem to have (and google wasn't helpful)
There isn't a horizontal or vertical listed, and pushing buttons on all
those strange words didn't do the job. Here are words listed:
Parrelelogram, H-Moire, Degauss, Recall 9300k colour temperature, Rotation,
Pin balance, Trapeziod, Pincushion, V size, V centre. ( there is a few
others like color etc)
Do they make any sense to any one?
 
Tassie said:
DEar Mark, thanks for trying to help me.
There is a lot of technical words in the menu that the dictionary didn't
seem to have (and google wasn't helpful)
There isn't a horizontal or vertical listed, and pushing buttons on all
those strange words didn't do the job. Here are words listed:
Parrelelogram, H-Moire, Degauss, Recall 9300k colour temperature,
Rotation,
Pin balance, Trapeziod, Pincushion, V size, V centre. ( there is a few
others like color etc)
Do they make any sense to any one?
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V size = Vertical Size.. V Center = Vertical Center
H size = Horizontal size.. H center = Horizontal Center..

Try them..
 
Tassie said:
I got the computer second hand, I don't have a manual for it.
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Most computer hardware sites have manuals available for all models,
including older ones. Have you tried that?
 
Don't try Degauss without knowing how to use it and especially not often. I
am not an expert so I might be wrong about anything, but I am nearly certain
that Degauss is to relieve the static or something like that. For my NEC at
least, it warns not to use it frequently or something like that.
 
Mike Hall - MVP said:
IBM are not too free with manuals.. good luck..
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As a teenager I went to IBM to buy manuals. That was about twenty years
before IBM made the PC and many years before the internet existed. Manuals
were expensive then. Last time I looked, they were all available online for
free. I will be very surprised if IBM charges for online copies of user
manuals for their monitors.

Other manuals, such as Intel manuals, also were (and probably are) expensive
printed but available for free online now that the internet makes it
possible.
 
Great! I was thinking I would have to get a printed copy. It's a lot less
hassle to be able to get them onlne.
 
Not true at all. Degaussing merely removes magnetism. It has no other
effect.
Residual magnetism can distort pictures on CRT's .
 
Read again what I said. In particular the part that says "For my NEC at
least, it warns not to use it frequently or something like that.". The
documentation of my (NEC) monitor definitely warns not to degauss without
adequate delay between deguassing.
 
And note that I said "without knowing how to use it". The monitor being
discussed might be able to deguassed continuously but I am just saying to
avoid using it unless you know it is not a problem for that monitor.
 
Extremely difficult to believe. Would you please quote exactly what the book
(your manual) states?
Never, ever heard of degaussing harming a monitor.
 
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