HELP - Screen resolution problem after graphics card driver update!

[Manuka_sky]

Hello all,

Having some major problems with my resolution after a driver update to my graphics card.

I have Windows 7 64-bit, and ever since I've installed it, I never bothered to do any windows updates and everything worked fine.

I've been trying to reduce my ping for online gaming, and started updating drivers. I made the mistake of using windows update to do this, and when windows updated my Geforce 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a driver, everything went to hell. My resolution size options were limited and all the options either cut off parts of my display, or just sucked.

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  * I tried to "roll back" the update in the device manager as some websites suggested, but that didn't seem to help.
  * I went onto the Nvidia website, and manually downloaded the latest drivers for my card, which replaced the previous drivers with new ones, but that still has not fixed the problem.

All my resolution options are either crap quality or cut off part of my screen.

With the "recommended resolution" (1360 x 768) I can't even see the START button on my desktop because it's totally cut off. I have my computer hooked up to my 32" samsung LCD TV.

Right now I have to use the "1024 x 768" resolution size. It's somewhat distorted, but doesn't cut off the START button.

Should I just totally uninstall the driver in the device manager? What happened to my original driver before the windows update?

Hoping someone could help out 🙁

 

[clutchc]

It sounds like you have some driver corruption happening. I would uninstall the gfx driver, reboot and see if Windows Update can find and install the correct driver.
You may even want to use DDU from safe mode to get rid of any and all gfx drivers it finds. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/display_driver_uninstaller.html
It's normally for discrete gfx card drivers, but should work just as well for iGPUs.

 

[Greeko85]

What you're describing sounds an awful lot like an overscan issue. There's two solutions I know of: first one would involve tinkering with some of the TV settings. Check in the TV settings menu if there is an option to enable/disable overscan-my TV had that option for every individual port.
If that is not an option you can always try to set the overscan level from the Nvidia control panel.