[ARCHIVED THREAD] - computer help please

Posted: 6/1/2013 1:07:55 PM EDT

I just bought a new monitor, that is wide screen. My computer is a e-machine about 7 yrs old.
How do I change the setting so the picture is filling the monitor without looking like it has just stretched it to fit.

Thanks Roy

Posted: 6/1/2013 1:08:54 PM EDT

[#1]

Install the monitor driver.

Posted: 6/1/2013 1:09:33 PM EDT

[#2]

If you are discussing the background picture then we would need to know if the picture is a repeating pattern or a photo.
IF it is a pattern you can tell it to tile the image, if it is a photo then you would need to crop it to the right ratio.

Posted: 6/1/2013 1:11:05 PM EDT

[#3]

Right click desktop. Properties. Change resplution to something else that looksbetter

Posted: 6/1/2013 1:13:08 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Right click desktop. Properties. Change resplution to something else that looksbetter

If screen goes black don't touch anything. It should auto return to previous setting

Posted: 6/1/2013 1:15:56 PM EDT

[#5]

It's possible some systems of that age will either require the driver or may not even do wide screen monitors. I've seen both things. Most of the time windows is pretty good at detecting monitors as plug and pray though.

Posted: 6/1/2013 1:17:10 PM EDT

[#6]

Hopefully the video card can handle filling the screen in a way that looks right. The driver disc means shit if the video card cannot support it IIRC.

Posted: 6/1/2013 5:26:06 PM EDT

[#7]

On an old Dell that I had, I had to download a new driver for the video chip set. Fortunately, the new drivers gave the video chip set the capability to display properly on my new wide screen monitor.

It had onboard video so I couldn't just swap video cards.

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