Native resolution still appearing in box on LCD (pics inside)

Noctu

Hi guys,
If any of you can figure out what the problem is I'll love you forever....

Recently I bought a second LCD monitor and a dual monitor card to go with it (ATI FireMV 2250 256mb). The problem is that it simply will not display properly on my 19".
The correct drivers are installed (and I've tried with the WDDM generic ones as well).
I am selecting the native resolution for the 19" 1440x900 (it's widescreen) - which works fine on my previous, integrated graphics - however the actual picture when run off the new dual screen graphics card looks like THIS:



As you can see the picture is still squashed, and a big black bar appears at the side. There are also tiny little bars running vertically up the picture.

As I've tried the ATI drivers and the Windows drivers, I'm stumped. I'm begrudgingly running it on 1280x1024 which fills the screen but looks rubbish. I can't seem to find a resolution which works nicely.

Leaving just the 19" plugged in (i.e. without the 2nd monitor) still has the same issue.

I've got latest drivers installed for the actual monitor too.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Many thanks :j

fwor

I hope someone comes up with a good answer to this!

I've tried dual monitors in both XP and 7 and, despite having all the right drivers and trying every option many times, I could never get it to work properly with monitors with different resolutions. I came to the conclusion that MS has just implemented the feature badly, but I'd be happy for someone to prove me wrong...

Noctu

Ok - fixed it...
I originally tinkered around a bit in the ATI Catalyst Control Centre but didn't try this bit:

in the Monitor Properties, in Adjustments, I fiddled around with the 'Synchronisation' plus and minus buttons at the bottom. It reset the picture so that it looked good but was hanging off the side of the screen. So I adjusted the monitor using its own settings (i.e. the buttons on the side) and have managed to get it looking good

fwor, it might be worth a tinker around in this Catalyst Control Centre if you have an ATI card (from reading up on Google it seems NVidia have a similar utility)...