Everything enlarged on screen. Help!

[Personality]

Hi all.

Yesterday, I fell asleep with the computer on and when I started the screen again, everything was enlarged. By everything, I mean everything. Text, icons, toolbars, windows logo, even the mouse cursor.

So I tried to find help online but none of them helped

Already tried
1. Using the control button with - and +. This only changes the internet page and not the toolbar on the top or the icons on the bottom.

2. Fixing screen resolution. I'm still at my maximum screen resolution at 1024 X 768 and the slide would not go higher.

3. Changing text size. It is already at 100% default and DPI is at 96.

Help please. I need to use the computer for university and just looking at the screen makes my head hurt in this new setting. Also, since everything doesn't fit on the screen, I have to scroll horizontally.

 

[delaro]

Control + Scroll wheel on Mouse did you try that?

 

[computertech82]

1024 X 768 ? I doubt your monitor is 10+ years old. Sounds like you might be using generic drivers, possible video card or monitor. CHECK YOUR DRIVERS.

 

[Personality]

Control + Scroll wheel on Mouse did you try that?

yeah. Read number 1. It does some things but doesn't change everything

 

[Personality]

1024 X 768 ? I doubt your monitor is 10+ years old. Sounds like you might be using generic drivers, possible video card or monitor. CHECK YOUR DRIVERS.

Well.. my GPU is a 750ti and I just updated it with no change.

My monitor is 20 inch X 13 inch from 2006. When I tried updating its drivers, it says it has the search the internet for it

update: and it says its up to date

 

[pikaru]

Maybe it's the accessibility setting? The screen magnifier.

 

[delaro]

Connect your Monitor using a different Connector. If you have 2 Dvi move it to the second one, this works sometimes when Windows doesn't Auto Detect the Monitor.

 

[Personality]

Connect your Monitor using a different Connector. If you have 2 Dvi move it to the second one, this works sometimes when Windows doesn't Auto Detect the Monitor.

Hmm. I tried that but no response.

I think the problem is that the resolution is too low. It should easily be 1800 with a 20 inch screen but its strangely capped at 1028. I don't know why though..

 

[pikaru]

Maybe try changing your cable?

 

[Personality]

[quotemsg=you mean my DVI cord? I only have one of those

 

[pikaru]

Yes the DVI cord. Try to borrow it from somewhere and see if that solves the problem. They are not too expensive.

 

[Personality]

Yes the DVI cord. Try to borrow it from somewhere and see if that solves the problem. They are not too expensive.

I think I found the problem from this thread.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2265838/screen-resolution-issue-generic-pnp-monitor.html

It lists my current viewsonic monitor as non-PnP, so that means my monitor drivers or gpu drivers weren't installed correctly.

I'll try checking my gpu if it overheated. I don't think there's anything wrong with the DVI cable because using my other screen (smaller, where 1028 is max anyways) it works fine.