12 hours of hell and then "Just Scan" . . . .

Grazie wrote on 12/3/2011, 11:42 PM
OK, I've been using an 32" HDTV, as my main monitor, with a 17" Samsung VGA, which gives fairly decent colour fidelity. So I thought I'd bring into play a second HDTV - 27". Nice, but wasn't happy with it so I decided to revert to the original setup.

And this is where my trouble began . . . .

My 32" is now not showing all my desktop. OK, I check out my Reso. Yes, 1920x1080. All as it should be. I do a driver nVidia update. Still no improvement. I do a DIRECT VGA connection to the 32" and I get full display. Hmm . . . . . There now HAS to be a bad port here! Argg....

I go out with friends for supper. 2 bottles of Cote de Rhone and so on later . . . .

3am this morning I'm at it, checking this and that and so on . . . check out some nVidia website forums about 1x1 pixel formats; HDTVs not responding to the reso of the driver . . .this is going waaaay over my head . . .

Then one bright spark mentions that maybe the postee should see if his HDTV can be set to correct OVERSCAN. EHhhhI can't do that with this tellie? No, I can't (hold that thought . . ). I look through the zapper for pixel settings and I've got 16x9 - yeah, that's the one, that's where it should be on and that's exactly WHAT I'm not getting!!! OK, just for larfs I decide to gently, flick through the remainder of the Picture ratios - Original ( what's that?); 4:3 - nah .. ; 14:9 - nope; ZOOM, no way . . ; and then, 2nd from the top "Just Scan" - Bosh! I get all my desktop back. Vegas is in like a bullet, and all is well with the World.

Simple . . . And now I remember, I'd NOT had it on 16x9 previously, it was ALWAYS on "just scan". And now I know - I think! - what it means. "Just Scan" must deliver a square pixel(?) yes? Could that be what it means?

I hope this will be of value to others.

Cheers

G

Comments

DavidMcKnight wrote on 12/3/2011, 11:48 PM
"Zapper"...I love it.!

;)
JJKizak wrote on 12/4/2011, 7:06 AM
Some of the Nvidia drivers do have an overscan adjustment.
JJK
Grazie wrote on 12/4/2011, 8:26 AM
Yes, there is a remarkable array of Advanced features: Voltage adjusts; pixel and line options, but not a straightforward underscan for me to confuse myself.

Frankly, the Zappa did it. (Don't touch that dial!)

G
dxdy wrote on 12/4/2011, 9:16 AM
On my low-end LG 32" HDTV, I had to add "PC" to the input label (showing which of the 3 HDMI inputs to use).

This required using the remote, and understanding that the manual's author had never actually used one of these TVs.
goshep wrote on 12/4/2011, 9:53 AM
I was reading your post and thinking it was a simple setting change on the TV until I read

"I go out with friends for supper. 2 bottles of Cote de Rhone and so on later . . . .

3am this morning I'm at it, checking this and that and so on . . ."

at which point I thought, "uh oh, he's really buggered this one up for sure."

Good for a chuckle. Cheers!
Grazie wrote on 12/4/2011, 4:36 PM
Hats off to dx/dy.

Yes, previously I could and had set my HDMI port 3 on my LG screen to PC. Having used another screen to experiment, the set to PC had been removed. My manual set to ONLY SCAN got me the result I wanted, but I hadn't used this "fixed" selection that on reflection is the proper way to setup the screen. Having done THIS the PC gets to display correctly without me needing to make the ONLY SCAN selection. This being the case, I can not now select ONLY SCAN, but the monitor happily does select16x9.


"Setting to PC" isn't, as I had thought, just for labelling, it actually forces itself to recognise that it will be used as THE pc port. Actually, the HDMI icon does then change to a Laptop Icon. And now I know why!

Got it now.

G

Arthur.S wrote on 12/6/2011, 7:25 AM
[B]"Frankly, the Zappa did it."[/B] Wasn't he a singer??? :-)
NicolSD wrote on 12/6/2011, 9:51 PM
"Frankly, the Zappa did it." Wasn't he a singer??? :-)

That's like calling Bach a keyboardist! Good thing you put a smiley at the end. LOL