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I just bought a Samsung BX2450 LED monitor. I use a 1920x1080 resolution at 60Hz which works fine, but it's not using the full display.

There is a 1cm border on the top/bottom and a 1.5cm border on the left/right. In effect I'm only using 22" of my new 24" monitor.

I installed new drivers for my ATI HD 58xx graphics card and monitor but this didn't help.

Here's a diagram to show what I mean:

link to a sample

The blue area is the actual display of the monitor. If I use a resolution of 1680x1050 then the full display is used but it doesn't look great. If I use 1920x1080 then it uses only the red area of the diagram.

I would hope to end up with a resolution of 1920x1080 filling the blue area.

Any ideas?

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I just wanted to do it a bit more specific reference:

  1. Setting up the resolution to 1280x1024 (this is enable GPU funtion in catalyst control center):

    • Right click on desktop > screen resolution
    • Set up the screen resolution to 1280x1024
    • Keep changes, is going to look bad still.
  2. Manually scaling the resolution in Catalyst Control Center:

    • Right click on desktop, catalyst control center;
    • Go to "My digital flat-panels"
    • Properties (Digital Flat-Panel)
    • Tick Enable GPU Scaling and select Scale image to full panel size
    • Go to "My digital flat-panels" and Scaling Options (Digital Flat-Panel)
    • Drag to 0% overscan and Tick Use the scaling values…
    • Apply changes
  3. Set up the resolution to 1920x1080:

    • Right click on desktop then click on screen resolution;
    • Set up to to 1920x1080.

Note: A computer restart must be done to apply changes.

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    +1 It's a scaling/overscan issue which can be tweaked in the Catalyst Control Center.
    – MDMarra
    Aug 10, 2010 at 15:59
  • yes that was the problem! THX!
    – Auro
    Aug 10, 2010 at 17:05
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That display is a 16:9 display, not a 16:10. 1920x1080 is it's maximum resolution:

http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/office/monitors/business/LS24B5HVFH/ZA/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=spec

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  • i know, what i want is to use the full display of this monitor and not only 22" :D if i change the resolution to 1680x1050 it uses the full 24" but not on 1920x1080 ;/
    – Auro
    Aug 9, 2010 at 19:56

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