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LN40A550 as external display

by kt.iam Dec 26, 2008 6:48AM PST

I have a ln40a550 which i sometimes use as an external display to view my movies from my laptop. I have a dvi to hdmi cable to connect my laptop to the tv and i just noticed today that my tv no longer fills up with my desktop background. ive tried reconnecting the cables and redetecting the external display but no matter what i do, there's still a black border all around the screen (both horizontally and vertically). what do i do to get it back to the way it was before because now when I view movies widescreen doesnt work because of the vertical borders in effect, if that makes any sense at all.

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LN10A550 externmal display

by RJAY1 Jan 3, 2009 12:43AM PST

I have read about this problem before and the only fix I have read that is said to work is, go into the picture options section in your Samsung menu and set size to just scan. This is said to work. Hope this helps.

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Resolution

by Samsung_HD_Tech Samsung staff Jan 3, 2009 4:48AM PST

Have you tried adjusting the resolution on your video card to see if that changes anything?

Often times these settings can be adjusted in the video card.

Keep me posted!

--HDTech

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