Black border's around screen when in bios or safe mode

Britton30 said:

I have a nVIDIA (old gtx460) and I also have the black border in Safe Mode or BIOS. The image is in wide-screen proportion though. The black border is narrower on the top and bottom than the sides.

I had always assumed this was due to in Safe or BIOS there is no GPU driver in use other than what, in BIOS, the board supplies and in Safe, the generic w7 driver.

I thought that too, but if I use the IGPU it shows full screen, so again it points to nvidia. I don't know what the answer is, it's confusing.

Britton30 said:

I had always assumed this was due to in Safe or BIOS there is no GPU driver in use other than what, in BIOS, the board supplies and in Safe, the generic w7 driver.

Thats what a lot of folk are saying and that it is to do with your monitors scaling but this can't be the case as it would have been the same when i had an ATI card. I much prefered my bios in full screen

I have no way to test, but it may have to do with a monitor's native resolution too since Dude said his 17" displays full screen.
I'm a noob and guessing.

God knows mate, One of the great mysteries

Okay, in case I confused anyone this is how I can get full screen BIOS on the DELL S2309W

Hooking the Dell S2309W to the IGPU with dvi, bios is full screen.

Hooking the Dell to the Nvidia GTX 660 by dvi, it's not full screen, it has the black bars.

My HP 17 inch monitor BIOS is full screen on IGPU or GTX 660.

My Samsung 2243 BIOS is fullscreen on Nvida 660 or IGPU.

Is it 16 x 9 monitors will not show full screen bios?

Hope I didn't confuse anyone.

Your explanation is how I understood it Doug. My monitor is 16x9, 1980x1080.

Britton30 said:

Your explanation is how I understood it Doug. My monitor is 16x9, 1980x1080.

Thanks Gary, I'm the one confused. As far as I can see it's 16x9 monitors that wont display the BIOS full screen.

Me too, I got the damn numbers wrong! It is 1920x1080, I do that often.

Well, I never paid attention to it until this question came up. I guess it didn't bother me too much. I have the border in bios. (picture below). In safe mode, I have to look hard to notice it as the screen and background is black. But, I can tell. But, in safe mode the default resolution is 600X800. I changed my resolution to 1920X1080 and the border was not there, that I could tell. At least the task bar went all the way to the edge of the screen on both sides. Here is a shot of my bios.

Odd, in Safe Mode for me the max resolution is 1280x1024.