Viewing area of the desktop does not fit the screen

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sunshine79

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We have an older desktop, HP pavilion a305w, operating system windows XP. A year or so ago we updated the monitor to a new lcd AOC. We decided to buy a new computer & give the older one to the grandkids. I decided to use my backup disk & reformatt the hard drive. My problem is after restarting the computer, the viewing area of the desktop does not fit the screen. How do I correct this problem? I downloaded a driver from the AOC.com website but nothing has changed.
 
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Have you re-installed the video drivers as well? You should be able to find them on the HP site. (Here specifically, nothing to it :P : http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=362754#N739 ) If it worked fine before then at least we know it can be fixed. The problem you're getting is called overscan, and is a lot more common when using TVs with computers as the input device. Unfortunately, I'm not sure there's a general consensus on fixing it. If getting the drivers doesn't help (Or are already properly installed) then we'll go from there.
 
sunshine79 said:
What directory should I save the drivers in?
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It doesn't really matter. If it's an .exe then once its saved you can simply double click it and it should install. If not, you just need to remember where you save it and install them from the control panel by pointing Windows to it.
 
Aoc Driver

I have tried to download driver but still have same problem. I am not real good on the computer but I have downoaded drivers before with no problem. This with my moniter is driving me crazy. After rereading your last post, I thought to myself that when I down loaded the driver I never seen the .exe extension. So...I deleted the driver I installed and I am going to try this again. I saved driver to my computer, it is in a zipped folder. When I right click on the zipped folder do I click open or extract all? Or do I double click the folder?
 
You need to extract it first, yes. If you want, you can make a new folder just for the purpose of extracting the drivers to it so you'll be able to find it more easily. Once you've extracted it, you need to go to the control panel, in the device manager and find the device in question (In this case the display adapter.) If it says it's a "Generic driver adapter" or something to that effect, then your drivers are not installed, if it gives you " Intel extreme adapter yadda yadda" then your problem lies elsewhere.

To install them, just right click the display adapter>properties>driver tab>install and then point Windows to the location of the extracted drivers. If the install option isn't in the driver tab, you will have to uninstall the old ones first. This is as easy as clicking uninstall, yes, and rebooting. Then you should be able to install no problems. You'll have to reboot after a successful install too, but Windows will tell you that.

I really hope that's the problem, because other than adjusting the monitor settings I'm pretty much out of ideas.
 
I greatly appreciate all of your input. I am glad there are people such as yourself to help people. Thanks again!

Sunshine79
 
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