G-Stress Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I'm having a bit of a problem running 2 monitors. My monitors are Acer AL2002W (20") Dynex DX-LCD42HD-09 (42") HDTV My video card is ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB Out of the PC I'm running DVI-DVI to the Acer and then I am running HDMI to the Dynex via a cat5 to HDMI extender. My problem is I want both monitors to display the complete desktop as if each were primary display. For some reason no matter what I set the resolution to on the Dynex the taskbar and a bit of the desktop all the way around the screen is cut off. I guess you could say it's as if the first row of icons are cut off as well as the start bar. I had this working before fine, but I just switched PC's and got this vid card 2 days ago and cannot remember what I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Are both displays 16:9? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Stress Posted July 26, 2009 Author Share Posted July 26, 2009 Yes I do believe so. It's weird no matter what I set the resolution to on the 42" it like cuts off about 1-2 inches all the way around the screen. I must say though anyone looking to run a lengthy HDMI cable, those HDMI over cat5/6 extenders work extremely well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan Have you tried different resolutions: 854x480, 1280x720, 1920x1080? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Stress Posted July 26, 2009 Author Share Posted July 26, 2009 Yea I've tried just about every resolution. I wonder if "extending my desktop" has anything to do with it. I don't really want to "extend" my desktop, I just want to have dual monitors both showing the complete desktop, but it won't me to de-select that option. I did see something in the ATI Catalyst Control Center about overscan, I'll play around with that and see if that helps. Thanks for the feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Stress Posted July 26, 2009 Author Share Posted July 26, 2009 Sparda, You the man:) there was an option to adjust the overscan/underscan in the ATI utility option were 15%-0% it was set on 0% and I had to take it up to about 5% and it's exactly what I needed. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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