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[jsprop]

I just cant seem to get this one worked out  I'm trying to get the desk top to fit the tv display.   I have the left side of the desk top cut off and cant get it moved over.  I have played with the nvidia divers(Geforce GTS 450) and windows display settings.  Also played with the tv setting but just can get the desktop to fit the screen and not be cut off.

Any have any thoughts on this?

Thanks John

[kensn]

How are you connected? HDMI - RGB ?

The nvidia control panel, under display has an Adjust desktop size and position section. If you go into the size tab and check the Enable desktop resizing and then the resize button you can adjust the size.

Ken

[jsprop]

It component at this time but will changing over to HDMI.  I did play with both of those.  I have the left side on the screen but still have 2" on the right side I cant get the desktop to fill.  Its like the center point of the desktop is shifted to the left of the center the display.  If that makes any sense.

[mykillk]

Have you in the past had a dual monitor setup?

[glynor]

This is almost always a setting in your TV.  TVs overscan the television image because older TVs couldn't display truly edge-to-edge (CRTs corrupt the edges of the screen, and cover it up with a plastic bezel).  Because many standalone components expect this (and will otherwise show black bars all around the content on the screen), HDTVs often come preset with an aspect ratio setting that crops off the outer edges of the images they get.

The graphics card drivers also probably have an overscan setting which can solve this., but don't use it if you can help it (keep it at 0% scaling).  That lowers the effective resolution of your panel (it displays windows "smaller" than the full resolution of your monitor).

Instead, look in the settings on your TV itself for Aspect Ratio settings.  Hopefully, you have a proper setting to not crop.  Look for a 1:1, Full, or True setting under Aspect Ratio.  On newer Samsung's it is harder to find, but it is in there somewhere (look under Advanced settings and try things that might make sense).  With luck, the setting will be input-specific, and it won't screw up your other devices (if any).

Settings like 16:9, Zoom, Crop, and other similarly named things often scale the image, which you don't want.  But they're named funky, often.  On a couple Panasonics I have at the office, the "proper" setting is called "Zoom 2", so you never know.  Anything Aspect Ratio related that you aren't sure about, just try.

[jsprop]

Mykillk,  I did have it set up with more then one display at one time.
Glynor,  It is a Samsung that I'm using.  I'll gone back and check out TV setting again and see if I find anything.

[mykillk]

Just a guess here, but I'm thinking that Windows still thinks you have a dual monitor setup and so it's sending part of your desktop to a non-existent monitor. You might need to hook up another monitor temporarily to so that you can fix it.

This discussion might be of use:
http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/199168-reset-dual-monitors.html

Also might be helpful:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934552

[BillT]

This is almost always a setting in your TV.  TVs overscan the television image because older TVs couldn't display truly edge-to-edge (CRTs corrupt the edges of the screen, and cover it up with a plastic bezel).

Yes, it probably is the TV.

I think it's more that early TVs didn't have stabilised power supplies, so the image size varied with mains voltage or image brightness or the direction of the wind. The cheap practical solution was to overscan the TV; as the edge of the picture wasn't visible, the size changes were much less noticeable. Of course, the edges of CRTs aren't straight, so you either have to accept a black edge (which most viewers don't seem to like - vide all those fat people that were common in the early days of 16:9 TVs, when most broadcasts were 4:3) or have some degree of overscan.

Broadcast CRT monitors (there are still some around, as they're still better than 99% of non CRT displays) are usually underscanned, so blanking problems can be seen; they do have stabilised supplies and shouldn't be over driven though!

[jmone]

It is simple, as Glynor says your TV with the current Component connection is setup to use Overscan.  If you can not change the TV's config to 100% (or whatever mode the TV calls it) you only other option is to scale the Windows desktop down in the video card options but this destroys the video quality.  You best bet is HDMI.