display issues

Hi I was wondering whether anyone could tell me why this happens? I have a 1080i HD TV set, with a resolution of 1920 by 1080, and a 27" monitor with the same resolution. I do see that inspite of the fact that both are the same pixel dimensions they are not the same aspect ratio. I'm aware...

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Sometimes when I'm playing various games the screen goes blank and I receive the message, "out of range". I then have to reboot my comp to do anything as the keyboard will not respond to any input. Is this message referencing my hardware's inability to run certain games at hi-res settings? I use...

As the title indicates, I'm not really sure if my problem is actually hardware or not, but this seems like the most appropriate place to post it. Since I did a clean install of the OS, I've had several instances where the monitor's screen momentarily went black, and upon recovery Windows popped...

Hi, I have an odd issue: my system recognizes a hidden, secondary monitor though I only use a single one. My monitor has the resolution of 1980 x 1200 px, and there is an additional area which I can't see next to it. When I accidentally move a window into the additional area, that's a...

I have an issue with getting a completely black screen. I never see a desktop. I never even see the login screen. If I press the sleep button on the case, then start it back up, I see a mouse pointer too. But on first boot, there is no mouse pointer. Booting in safe mode has the exact same...

I am using a relatively new Toshiba Satellite laptop, which came with Windows 8 (64-bit). Frequently, as I am typing, the text size will suddenly enlarge. I don't believe that my wrist is interfering with the keyboard, but I can't be certain. I have not had this problem with previous laptops...

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Hi all and thanks for your great supporting forum. I'm experiencing since this morning systematic BSOD at windows login, probably in relation with my video card. The first crash occured while googling (not gaming, no CPU activity), the screen blanked and then BSOD followed by reboot. At reboot...

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Microsoft phone help and geek squad both didnt know what was wrong... computer goes through the initial 5 phases of installing windows and then states it will restart in 10 seconds and counts down and restarts... from here it restarts and I get a black screen with blinking cursor and once I...

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Text width was way too wide on some pages(way past right edge of browser). Made a bunch of changes to fix it(or try), and one included 'font matching', or something close to that. Now many font sizes are obviously incorrect. Want to get them back. Can't find the syntax. This started with the...

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Normally Recent Docs list is showing. Suddenly nothing. I went to Tools, It was still set to show 10 docs but I reset it. OK. Turned off computer. Then computer on, opened a few docs to test. Computer on and off again. Nothing. Office Word 2007 Any ideas how to fix this? Its a real nuisance.

Hi I have an old ati firemv 2200 dual monitor card which was all I needed until I upgraded to W8 I have re installed the card and connected the monitors but all I get is the same image on both screens...when I checked the device manager it doesn't even show up there. the win7 driver and catalyst...

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I am having some issues with my color management. Different programs display the color considerably different. In Photoshop Lightroom and in the Windows Photo Viewer, the image shows up with a vibrant pink. Then when I made it my background image, the picture shows up as a dull pink. I even...

Hello, I am facing this unique problem with Windows 8. I have observed this while I use programs like autocad, Windows photo viewer and Microsoft OneNote. When I open any image in Microsoft Photo Viewer, it appears the normal way. However, When I click on the slideshow mode, the image...

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