hi all,

Been a lurker for a little while, and find this site very helpful for help with my PC problems  

Can you help?

I was playing Eve online yesterday, and due to a GAME error my PC rebooted ( theres been a few people with this problem )

When the PC restarted i've now got a 19" monitor that thinks its a 17"?!?!?

I've got a thick black line down the right side of the screen, i can move the whole screen over, but then of course i just get a thinner line down either side.

I've tried altering it on the monitor settings but there is no 'stretch image' option on it, only move it up/down & left/right

I've also updated my GRAPHICS card drivers....but no change there either...

Now....when i set the screen resolution to 1024 x 768 it fills the screen fully ?! but when i go back to 1280 x 1024 the black BAR appears again!?!

I'm running a core2duo system
7600 gs card
19" LCD monitor

Built the system myself, its been running fine for 6 months


Any advide would be greatly appreciated, as i can't figure out what to do  :-?



Happy Christmas all

Edit : also just physically taken card out and reseated it...just to be sure....still no good though.









Try another monitor on that machine and that monitor on another.

Try another video card if it appears the problem is NOT with the monitor (and it probably is not).

Check you temps on the machine when running.

Post back your results.hi there GX1, thanks for the reply.


I've tried another monitor and its the same problem, haven't got the chance as yet to try another card, but I did find the manual for my original monitor and adjusted the 'clock' on it, this stretched the screen quite a lot, now the border is only 1/4" each side.

Temperature wise, the gpu is running at 43C mobo 42C and cpu 32

thanks again for the help
might buy a new card tomorrow....It seems to point that way.  hi again,

Just popped a new card in  

It seems it was the card all along

 thx for the help GX1

Good for you. Glad everything is fixed and thanks for posting back.