Guys,

I got two Samsung BX2231 LED (backlighted, not LED monitor...yeah I got tricked ) monitor connected to my ATI Radeon 6850. No matter what resolution I use, I can never get it to display fully without borders. Setting the resolution to 1920x1080 will shrink the whole image, black borders around it,

and 1680x1050 will result in borders at the sides.


HDMI, or the supplied HDMI-to-DVI cable makes no difference (don't tell me I should use VGA!)

What am I supposed to do? And I bought two of these!!

hahaha.... there is a setting inside catalyst can solve this prob
some games even come with it.

installed proper driver?

everything's in order - catalyst, driver, etc.

tried with my HP 23" monitor and everything is fine.


Edit: oh right...... someone told me there's an overscan feature that I gotta enable in Catalyst. Well if I turn this on yeah I can scale it up to fit the whole screen, but then it means that my monitor isn't technically 1080p, right? overscan would scale it up and blur it a bit?

This post has been edited by C-Fu: Dec 12 2010, 11:03 AM

ive never seen RED border with ATI GC. should be the monitor. have you playing around with the monitor setting?

How do u know this monitor is not LED lighted?

most of computer LED monitor wasn't 100% LED...
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1548631

the pure LED monitor's price should at least +70% from the LCD monitor's price
example: 42" LCD RM2000, 42" LED RM3800

So u actually do not know that LED is only backlighting? U weren't conned man.

Press the "Auto" button on the LCD monitor, and it should auto-adjust ...

its black, but i edited and coloured it to red so people can see it easily.

I scaled the display up a bit in catalyst, and the display managed to fill the entire screen. however, I noticed the texts and images to be slightly blurry. it doesn't really affect day-to-day use, but it's especially important when I do my video editing & VFX stuff. I'm gonna fiddle around a bit more to see if I can make the text (like the one in lowyat.net right now) sharper.

This post has been edited by C-Fu: Dec 14 2010, 01:12 AM

I'm facing the same problem,
how to solve it? help me please.

This usually the fault of Ati Graphic card..got me stuck for hours after i bought my Samsung BX2350..try download latest ccc software n gc driver..max to highest resolution, 60hz refresh rate n try scaling again, overscan to 0%..

problem solve
my default overscan not 0%,
that why weird black frame menyemak..ahaha

what is the purpose of overscan?? mind to share??

Overscan is extra image area (black boarders) around the four edges of a video image that may not be seen reliably by the viewer (x same size with led, lcd)
So setting the overscan at ati's ccc to 0% meaning it will terminate the left space area(black boarders) and make use all the space size of ur lcd,led.
This problem common to Ati's graphic card running with hdmi cable on led lcd..as i know of anyway..

my fren also have lcd same like u..and also get same problem i think...

but know its already solve it..later i try ask him..

i had the same problem also man.. tried updating the driver for monitor n gpu... at last resorted to scaling.. sigh.. anyone managed to find the solution?

i say man... i also having this monitor and same HD 6850 VGA, same problems with C-Fu

wan2911, can u giv a guide/step how to u manage to let it fit all screen? Howerver dont know y my monitor setting is [Locked]?

This post has been edited by ImTheKidz: Mar 29 2011, 11:33 PM

hi.. i just bought this monitor.. so far so good.. but i dont encounter what any of u guys had.. im using hdmi for console n vga for pc.. no black borders... =)

open the Catalyst Control center and under My digital flat panel... select scaling option

BTW i'm using HDMI

This post has been edited by nazhif1: May 9 2011, 05:47 PM


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Yupp that's the only solution to this. Thanks anyway