Acer Monitor Has a Black Border Around Picture

cuttinace

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I got an Acer KA1 KA251Q and I noticed there was a black border around it. I did a bit of research and some people found switching from hdmi to dvi fixed the issue but I still got the black border with dvi.
This is when it's plugged into hdmi.
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This is dvi. I tried using NVIDIA control panel to adjust the screen but I couldn't scale the screen past the black border.
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Solution
That's the edge of the screen. It has a small inner border.

The posts you see about people having trouble with black borders on HDMI due to underscan are talking about a black border like this:
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cuttinace

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The monitor is advertised as "full hd resolution on a border-less 24.5" screen" and the preview picture doesn't seem to have the inner border or at least not as big
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