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Alex
  Posted: May 12 2016, 02:13 PM


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Hey guys!

We replaced our GoPro display at work and were instructed to trash the old one, but before doing that I grabbed the 22" Samsung LCD to bring home and use as a secondary with my laptop.

It's pretty plug-and-play, but at proper resolution 1920 x 1080 the boundaries of the screen exceed the monitor a bit. Pretty much the height of the task bar is trimmed off all sides. Changing the resolution to 1600 x 1200 fits within the screen well, but the proportions are wrong.


Any tips?
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Posted: May 13 2016, 04:21 AM


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ensure that your scaling is 1:1.
This usually happens when you try to use a TV as a monitor, there's usually a setting on the TV itself.


If that isnt the case, you can adjust the scaling through the drivers, Intel, nvidia, AMD can all do that.
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Posted: May 13 2016, 11:18 AM


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~ ditto on what Sensation! said ... if your TV has a Scan resolution/ratio in the options menu, that usually does the job with the 1080p signal the PC sends to the tube ~ happy.gif

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Posted: May 13 2016, 09:27 PM


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Some TVs don't do this correctly, though. We had to go through several before we found one that handled PC input over HDMI properly. It's pretty much a crapshoot, so I hope that whichever one you ended up getting works out in the end.
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Posted: May 14 2016, 11:26 AM


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QUOTE (Alex @ May 12 2016, 06:13 PM)
Hey guys!

We replaced our GoPro display at work and were instructed to trash the old one, but before doing that I grabbed the 22" Samsung LCD to bring home and use as a secondary with my laptop.

It's pretty plug-and-play, but at proper resolution 1920 x 1080 the boundaries of the screen exceed the monitor a bit. Pretty much the height of the task bar is trimmed off all sides. Changing the resolution to 1600 x 1200 fits within the screen well, but the proportions are wrong.


Any tips?

Hopefully your LCD screen (I'm assuming it's a TV and not a monitor) does have the 1:1 pixel mapping feature that others have mentioned here, unlike my TV which has it but needs to have the setting re-enabled every time I change the input or turn on/off the TV.

In my case I found that there is a software solution to resolution issues when using an HDTV as a monitor. All I did was to change the scaling settings within the control panel software that your video card manufacturer provides (either Nvidia or AMD/ATI).
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Got the resolution squared up with some graphics side resolution tweaking.


Now the audio is all kinds of confused. Originally it sent audio through HDMI to the TV/monitor, and I had speakers plugged in to that. Then yesterday it doesn't play any audio, except for sometimes through the laptop speakers. Even more confusing is things like Spotify won't work with the HDMI plugged in. It tries to play the track, can't find it, skips to the next and repeats that cycle. I don't even know where to start with that one.
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Posted: May 16 2016, 01:20 PM


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If you're on Windows, you have to make sure that the HDMI output is set as your Default Playback Device. Right-click the speaker icon in the bottom-right, click "Playback Devices," then right-click the HDMI and set it to default. You'll have to restart whatever applications are playing audio at the time though.

Some applications can also change outputs on-the-fly without relying on Windows, such as Media Player Classic (View->Options->Output->Audio Renderer) or VLC (Tools->Preferences->Audio->Output Module). These can be used to test whether it's an issue with the device or an issue with Windows.

Also do make sure all your system drivers are up to date.
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QUOTE (Nomake Wan @ 1 hour, 10 minutes ago)
If you're on Windows, you have to make sure that the HDMI output is set as your Default Playback Device. Right-click the speaker icon in the bottom-right, click "Playback Devices," then right-click the HDMI and set it to default. You'll have to restart whatever applications are playing audio at the time though.

Some applications can also change outputs on-the-fly without relying on Windows, such as Media Player Classic (View->Options->Output->Audio Renderer) or VLC (Tools->Preferences->Audio->Output Module). These can be used to test whether it's an issue with the device or an issue with Windows.

Also do make sure all your system drivers are up to date.

Don't know why I didn't think of that sooner. 10 years ago I would have known exactly what to do with these problems. Then again, I was also on XP then and things were much simpler then.

Don't know what happened. Reboot didn't fix it yesterday but Spotify is working fine now. Audio is sorted out too.

Thanks to all that offered solutions!
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Posted: May 16 2016, 03:16 PM


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Reboot shouldn't be necessary--just closing and re-opening whatever applications are playing audio when you make the switch.

Glad you got it sorted!
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