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Utter chaos.
I started a rebuild and it quickly turned into an entirely new machine. I've got a core i7 920 on a gigabyte EX58 UD4P with 6GB (3 x 2GB) RAM DDR3 1600. I started out trying to run a Powercolor Radeon 4870, but that card had a manufacturers error, so it crashes the system when I, say, try to download Adobe Flash Player. Got a GeForce GTX 260 now, no crashes. My monitor is a Hannspree HT09 28" LCD. 1920x1200 native.
Here's the REAL issue. After Windows 7 finishes setting up, I'd say about 1/2 inch of viewable desktop is "cut off" by the edges of the monitor, on all sides. The oddest thing, in my mind, is that besides the crashes to the Blue Screen, the Radeon 4870 was the only card that didn't have this "cut off" problem.
All drivers are current. Even tried a bait and switch with the bad 4870 displaying properly, with no driver updates, power down, put in the GTX 260 and still it's being "cut off".
Monitor Driver? Windows 7 is recognizing my monitor as a T280H. Which I believe is the samsung-made screen module itself.
Last edited by ZenWarrior; 18 Sep 2009 at 19:16. Reason: left out a detail