Weird Video Issue

spacejamz

Lifer
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This issue popped up a few weeks ago on my 37" Westy monitor...

When connected with a VGA cable, there is a 1" black bar at the top (none at the bottom or sides - see red lines in the image below)...This happens when using a 9800GT or GT640 card with the latest drivers.

When I connect using a DVI cable, the black bar is gone...

If I do screen print, it captures the whole screen. This is a PITA because if I run a window at full screen, I cannot see the 'X' in the top corner to close the window or move the window around by grabbing the title bar.

I have gone into the NVIDIA control panel and tried all 3 scaling options (aspect ratio, full screen, no scaling) and none of them fixed it.

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Another weird piece to this is that I am using a KVM switch to connect my work laptop which an ATI card. It also had the black bar, but if I check Composite Sync option in the Catalyst Control Center, the black bar goes away. I could not find this option in the NVIDIA control panel.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I would rather use the VGA cable as it makes life a bit simpler with the KVM switch...
 

spacejamz

Lifer
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It this appears to be an issue with the Westy...I connected the VGA from the KVM to another monitor and the bar is gone...

MODS, you can lock this thread....thanks..
 

spacejamz

Lifer
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That's a TV isn't it? TV's and monitors don't work the same.

It does not have a TV tuner if that is what you are asking...

It has 1920x1080 resolution and has 1 HDMI/2 DVI inputs/1 VGA input/Component/S Video/composite inputs...

I have been using it as a PC monitor for 5 years now without any problems...this issue just started happening a few weeks ago...