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Windows 7 Display Problem - Black Borders
I delayed my installation of 7 until tonight... I had the beta and never had this problem. This is a clean install on a clean HDD from the DVD of win 7 pro x64.
After the install everything looks fine, I could tell it had it set on max res. Updated windows, intel infs, ati 9.11, symantec EP 11 the works. After everything was done it was time to customize and personalize my windows. First thing i did was try to lower the res because the monitor is quite far from my face and iam tired of squinting. As i changed the resolution the first thing I did was change 1680 x 1050 to 1440 x 900. I noticed something looks wierd... essentiall the screen res looks the same just that the screen area got smaller... changed it lower to 1280 x 800 and the same thing happened. Went in for a closer look and noticed the res is the same just the viewable screen area just shrunk.... Tried to fix and research the problem and found out alot of people were having the same issue. After 2 hrs I am lost. If i input res of 4:3 that takes up the whole screen just stretched wierd but if i enter widescreen res of 16:10 it just makes black borders. It seems alot of these problems did not get solved mostly because they were not able to explain it correctly and I figured, I should take a picture, it would help explaining.
I am sorry if the solution has been posted elsewhere, if you can provide me a link it would be great.
Picture1: max res 1680x1050
Picture2: 1440x900 notice the black borders of dead space
picture3: 1280x800 notice the black borders of dead space
*Red line drawn to show actual screen/lcd border
*purple line drawn to show rendered border by windows 7
It maybe a scaling / stretching issue where it is not stretching correctly.
I tried manually removing the drivers as well as a physical removal of those drivers from windows and windows\system32 and windows\syswow64
Thank you for your input