Posted by Jagdeep Rajput on September 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM
As my old monitor crashed, I had to get new monitor. It is a 23" led monitor. Picture quality is great but i'm having problems with maintaining the aspect ratio of the picture. It either shows the photo stretched horizontly or vertically. As my computor is about 7 years old, think it doesn't have a grafic card I'm not able to configure it out. I wonder if some one is able to help me out.
Jagdeep Rajput
Posted by Paul DeCesare on September 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM
Jagdeep, LCD and LED monitors do have ONE resolution that is the native size they need to run at, or they will look like what you described. Look in the manual for the monitor and see what the top resolution is, that will be native most likely. Then go to Display Properties and see if that resolution is there. If it isn't then you'll need a graphics card. If you do have a graphics card then you may just need to download the latest drivers for it.
One way to see exactly what is on your PC is to go to http://www.belarc.com and download and run their free Advisor tool. This tool will generate a report of everything on your machine including the serial numbers in your ram sticks! That will tell you exactly what video you have.
As far as adding a card, a 7 year old PC might still have a PCI Express x16 slot, or it may have an AGP slot. The Belarc report will tell you what kindof slot you have. There are good video cards out there that will drive your monitor without spending $300. Here's one that's $55 and drives up to 2560x1600 resolution (if you have a PCI-E x16 slot that is). Whatever you get, make sure it's the right kind for your slot. Also, if you have a low-profile PC case, you'll need a low-profile card of course (low profile means a thin case like Dell makes for some models). If you have a big stand-up PC, you probably don't have a low-profile box.
Hope that helps! Fire back if you have more questions.
Paul
Just a wild guess, but you probably have to update your video driver. Older drivers may not support some of the newest monitor resolutions. I would try this as a first step.
If you have on-board graphics (graphics processing on-board the CPU) as opposed to a PCI video card, a new graphics card should help, as Pual suggests. You will have to make sure your OS will be compatible with the new card's diver software.
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Posted by Jagdeep Rajput on September 29, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Thanks Paul & Preston !
You have been great help, it has been resolved.
Jagdeep Rajput
Posted by Jagdeep Rajput on September 30, 2011 at 5:19 AM
As Paul suggested, I checked the resolution in Display Properties, there selected the highest resolution, it didn't solve the problem. But when I selected the second highest resolution, it solved the problem.
Thanks again !
Jagdeep Rajput
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5 repliesJagdeep Rajput
One way to see exactly what is on your PC is to go to http://www.belarc.com and download and run their free Advisor tool. This tool will generate a report of everything on your machine including the serial numbers in your ram sticks! That will tell you exactly what video you have.
As far as adding a card, a 7 year old PC might still have a PCI Express x16 slot, or it may have an AGP slot. The Belarc report will tell you what kindof slot you have. There are good video cards out there that will drive your monitor without spending $300. Here's one that's $55 and drives up to 2560x1600 resolution (if you have a PCI-E x16 slot that is). Whatever you get, make sure it's the right kind for your slot. Also, if you have a low-profile PC case, you'll need a low-profile card of course (low profile means a thin case like Dell makes for some models). If you have a big stand-up PC, you probably don't have a low-profile box.
Hope that helps! Fire back if you have more questions.
Paul
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Just a wild guess, but you probably have to update your video driver. Older drivers may not support some of the newest monitor resolutions. I would try this as a first step.
If you have on-board graphics (graphics processing on-board the CPU) as opposed to a PCI video card, a new graphics card should help, as Pual suggests. You will have to make sure your OS will be compatible with the new card's diver software.
--P
You have been great help, it has been resolved.
Jagdeep Rajput
Just curious, but how did you resolve the issue?
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Thanks again !
Jagdeep Rajput