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

Dude said:

I'm still wondering why it does it. A dvi from my IGPU shows full screen bios, but the DVI from my Nvidia won't

OCD

Britton30 said:

I've figured it out, it's the fault of one of these guys:

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(Gremlin)

Hehe

It has nothing to do with Nvidia but its only Nvidia gpu's that do it. Hmmm None of my previous AMD gpu's did it.

Britton30 said:

I've figured it out, it's the fault of one of these guys:

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(Gremlin)

Gary, I hate to break it to you, but a whole bunch of those guys live in your computer.

True Steve, here's the leader....

I think I know what the "B" on his chest stands for. I have called him by that name numerous times. I just cant say it on the forums or I'll get banned.

Bloody Gremlin's always upto no good.

Boozad said:

Does the NVidia software run in Safe Mode? I'm wondering if it's anything to do with the overscan feature not being loaded. My Windows screen looked like that when I first installed my HD7850 and I had to use overscan to fill the screen (1920 x 1080). Maybe if the feature isn't loaded (in BIOS or in Safe Mode) the output defaults to a smaller resolution?

Safe mode only runs drivers need to show a disply, no nVIDIA or AMD.

The issues is properly a lot more simpler then you guys realize. Default Settings. With out a driver the GPU uses its default settings and in those settings the scaling factor is likely either set to Preserve Aspect Ratios or Centers (Preserving Aspect and Resolution) on large format monitors using a digital connection. Of course it could also be a setting in the BIOS. On my older laptop (Inspiron E1705) it had the option to either expanding the BIOS and pre-windows enviroment to full screen (1920x1200) or have it displayed center (Black bars all around).

My current setup, uses an UEFI board expands to fill the whole screen with a GTX 690 (DVI). I wish it would have the option to turn off fullscreen. :P Its not the best features on a 30" monitor.