Hi all,
Hopefully this is the right place to ask for suggestions.
I have a 720p 32-inch LCD TV. I have connected my laptop to the TV via VGA channel, but for some reason the laptop screen is centered on the TV with wide vertical black stripes. I want to get rid of those so that the laptop screen covers the entire TV area.
I have several different screen resolution options on Windows, but only 1024x768 works. The operating system will let me increase my resolution, but the TV will output a "mode not supported" message. I have tried everything I can think of but came up empty handed.
Note that the laptop has VGA, HDMI, and DisplayPort outputs. I tried using a HDMI-to-HDMI cable. I was able to use a higher resolution with no black stripes, but then colors were all washed out. I tried changing color settings on the TV with no ultimate satisfaction.
Would a DP-to-HDMI cable fix the problem? Is there a way to use the VGA cable and still achieve full screen display? I want to use all of the TV real estate instead of a partial area.
P.S. I noticed that the TV name is not recognized on the computer if the VGA cable is used. Rather there is a generic "display 2" name for it. If the HDMI cable is used, the OS will recognize the name. I also have the latest graphics driver.
Hopefully this is the right place to ask for suggestions.
I have a 720p 32-inch LCD TV. I have connected my laptop to the TV via VGA channel, but for some reason the laptop screen is centered on the TV with wide vertical black stripes. I want to get rid of those so that the laptop screen covers the entire TV area.
I have several different screen resolution options on Windows, but only 1024x768 works. The operating system will let me increase my resolution, but the TV will output a "mode not supported" message. I have tried everything I can think of but came up empty handed.
Note that the laptop has VGA, HDMI, and DisplayPort outputs. I tried using a HDMI-to-HDMI cable. I was able to use a higher resolution with no black stripes, but then colors were all washed out. I tried changing color settings on the TV with no ultimate satisfaction.
Would a DP-to-HDMI cable fix the problem? Is there a way to use the VGA cable and still achieve full screen display? I want to use all of the TV real estate instead of a partial area.
P.S. I noticed that the TV name is not recognized on the computer if the VGA cable is used. Rather there is a generic "display 2" name for it. If the HDMI cable is used, the OS will recognize the name. I also have the latest graphics driver.