G51 to TV edges get cut off

Alright, so I have the G51 with stock nVidia drivers and Windows 7 hooked up to my TV with an HDMI cable. The TV claims to support 1366x768, its a 720p TV. Every resolution I've tried, including 1366x768 leaves me with the edges cut off. There are a couple resolutions in which the 260 control panel allow me to resize my desktop to fit the screen, but then the resolution has aliasing issues...

I just want to be able to use pixel for pixel, and not have the edges cut off. Anyone know what could be up? Could it just be a driver issue?

 

Your TV might have a menu setting for pixel by pixel. You should also be able to compensate for the overscan by going to the nvidia control panel.

 

no, my tv doesn't have that option...and I didnt see the overscan option anywhere.

Also, I must have messed with a setting when I was messing eith using the TV through the VGA cable, and now whenever I plus in the cable, my computer doesn't recognize the TV until I open up the nVidia control panel...and as soon as I open the control panel, my laptop screen disappears and nothing shows up on the tv and I end up with two blank screens I cant get rid of unless I unplug the VGA cable and press [fn+f8]...

 

hmmm...have you tried using any different drivers with HDMI? perhaps that will solve your problem.

 

what other driver options do I have other than dox? Maybe I'll try just reinstalling my current drivers...

 

Resize your HDTV desktop in the control panel and it will fit perfectly. ALso something I noticed is on my TV I have 2 HDMI inputs and when Ihad it on the top one labelled HDMI it would cut off and act all weird and when I put it in the bottom one labelled HDMI/DVI it handled my computer resolutions MUCH better and gave me much less grief.

 

186.03 is the official driver from nVidia's site for notebooks. or you can use laptop video2go and download the latest and greatest driver.

 

For what it does (gaming performance) Dox drivers excell. At other things... not so much.

Dox drivers tend to do all kinds of funky things with HDMI out.

 

Yeah, so I resinstalled my drivers and it gave me a couple new options this time around, but still nothing that really helped.

When I resize, it sets my resolution as 1202x670, and again, aliasing is pretty bad.

Alright, so I went ahead and switched back to VGA now that I reinstalled my drivers, and I was about to get it to the native 1280x720 just fine. Weird, but my HDMI still isn't working...I wont worry about it for now, I just hope the issue doesn't persist when I get my 1080p TV.

 

I know that once I hook my G51 to my friends 56" LCD, all I hae to do is close the lid (if I'm plugged up) and the G51 automatically outputs to whatever resolution the T.V. is.

 

i will never use hdmi again for my tv. it "optimizes" the res on the tv. good old vga out is the best

 

But VGA can't really output at 1080p resolutions......

 

This issue is not with the computer but with the TV.

Most HD TVs have various settings like 4:3, 16:9, Widescreen, Stretch, Just Scan (Samsung), Full or Fill, Zoom etc.

I know for me when I hooked up the G51 via HDMI into my Samsung 52" LCD the edges of the viewable desktop were exceeded (i.e. cut off). If you try to resize the screen via the Nvida control panel you will end up with a "custom resolution" (1865x1050 for example) and not an optimal solution.

I know for me switching the TV setting to "Just Scan" solved the problem and took the native 1920x1080 output from the G51 and displayed it perfect fit on my 52" screen. Switching the TV back to 16:9 would result back to the edges being exceeded and not displayed.

If your TV does not have an appropriate setting like "just scan" then you are SOL as your TV may not have the necessary tools to double as a PC monitor without help from the source (i.e. resize w/custom resolution).

 

190.38 has a new control panel and it deals with HDTVs much better than any previous driver does. I had a small problem with them so I upgraded to 190.56 and not only do I get better performance out of them than any of the DOX drivers, but they have the by far the best HDTV handling capabilities of any driver I have ever used.

Get 190.56 on with the modded inf from laptopvideo2go and yo'll be happy.

 

Right on, my new 42 inch had the feature enabled, and as soon as I disabled it, it popped right into the pixel to pixel 1080p resolution, thanks dude!