Black bar on left monitor - forced to run in 1680x1050 to fix black border issue?

[jac92007]

So last night I was watching netflix perfectly fine, when I switched over to gaming for a bit. All of a sudden I had a half an inch black bar on my left screen and all my icons pushed over. The mouse would not go past it. If I adjusted in the screen resolution settings, the black bar remained, and the mouse would disappear behind. I changed the resolution to 1680x1050 and it seemed to minimize the bar, but in order to completely fix it, I had to change my settings on my monitor control panel as well. Physically I had to change the H.Position from 50 (normal) to 0 so it would move everything over to the left.

So now Im running one monitor as 1680x1050 and the other at 1920x1080.

Games and videos look terrible now. Suggestions?

 

[nukemaster]

So you have a black border all the way around the screen or just on one side?

If it is all around and you are connected via HDMI or DisplayPort you may have to adjust over or underscan. This can be done in your video cards control panel, but check your monitors menus first as this may work best.

 

[jac92007]

I only have the border on the left side of the screen when I am in its native 1920x1080 resolution. But after downscaling my res and changing the h.position from 50-0, it has gone away. But now, Im stuck in a off resolution.

 

[nukemaster]

It may be worth trying another cable. That is a very strange issue to loose a part of the screen yet still be able to force picture onto it(ruling out a failed section of screen).

 

[jac92007]

It may be worth trying another cable. That is a very strange issue to loose a part of the screen yet still be able to force picture onto it(ruling out a failed section of screen).

I have switched the two cables that my monitors are running on, and the switch does the same thing to the same monitor.

 

[scout_03]

what gpu you use .

 

[jac92007]

what gpu you use .

its a gtx 970

 

[scout_03]

check in the nvidia control panel there should be a setttings to ajust scaling by gpu and on to adapt picture to panel size that should help .

 

[jac92007]

check in the nvidia control panel there should be a setttings to ajust scaling by gpu and on to adapt picture to panel size that should help .

Just tried that and it does not seem to fix it :/

 

[scout_03]

on that monitor did you try to center the picture with the monitor settings .

 

[jac92007]

on that monitor did you try to center the picture with the monitor settings .

I did, however when im not using the 0 H.position setting, its even larger of a black bar. Once I reduced it to 0 it only left me with about a 1/4 inch black bar on the left.

 

[scout_03]

give the name and model of that monitor .

 

[jac92007]

give the name and model of that monitor .

acer h236hl

 

[scout_03]

see from the osd option then on auto that should help in the monitor manual http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers

 

[jac92007]

see from the osd option then on auto that should help in the monitor manual http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers

Yeah thats what acer support suggested, however that still didnt fix it.

 

[scout_03]

what happens if you put monitor 2 with cable one as main and the use the main wiath cable 2 as as econdary monitor on the gpu connector if you have the same issue the the monitor is defective .

 

[jac92007]

Im talking to acer right now about this, they think so too. Guess Im getting a new monitor.

Thanks for the help guys.