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I have a Westinghouse TV that I'm using as a monitor. I don't have a specific driver for it, nor do I think one exists. The generic Windows monitor driver worked fine for about a month with Windows 8 (via new Lenovo desktop – which pumped out 1920x1080 over HDMI, and which is the native resolution of the monitor. Life was good!)
Yesterday morning I updated to 8.1, and today I'm letterboxed. The image is clear and the correct aspect ratio, but it's just smaller and I'm wasting a couple inches of screen space all around. I've tried changing the resolution and rebooting various times. At one point the imaged pulled all the way out, left/right, but not top/bottom. It's the Lenovo/AMD-Radeon/Win8.1 machine – not the monitor which still works fine with other machines. (albeit via VGA, not HDMI – which is a manual source setting change in the monitor.)
- Westinghouse EW39T4LZ 39" 1080p 60Hz LCD HDTV
- AMD Radeon HD 7560D (Lenovo box)
- Windows 8.1 (online update from 8 OEM)
This is the problem since updating to 8.1 – some kind of driver update-problem-something.
I'm thinking I delete the AMD Radeon HD 7560D line-item from my Device Manager, and then when I reboot, it will be found and reinstalled. That's what I would have done with XP anyway.
Or I could uninstall the driver from within the AMD Radeon properties window above (Drivers tab) – but I'm afraid I will lose the screen and a reboot won't fix that, and then I'm stuck with re-imaging the OS from the OEM partition.
I'm sure I rebooted yesterday after the update – but I only noticed the very-black-black leterbox this morning. I'm not 100% certain it was caused from the update, but I am 100% certain letterbox was not happening before the update. The time/date stamp in the image above corresponds with my 8.1 update yesterday.
Thoughts? (read: warnings or alternatives before I nuke this control panel item?)
Thanks!
Yesterday morning I updated to 8.1, and today I'm letterboxed. The image is clear and the correct aspect ratio, but it's just smaller and I'm wasting a couple inches of screen space all around. I've tried changing the resolution and rebooting various times. At one point the imaged pulled all the way out, left/right, but not top/bottom. It's the Lenovo/AMD-Radeon/Win8.1 machine – not the monitor which still works fine with other machines. (albeit via VGA, not HDMI – which is a manual source setting change in the monitor.)
- Westinghouse EW39T4LZ 39" 1080p 60Hz LCD HDTV
- AMD Radeon HD 7560D (Lenovo box)
- Windows 8.1 (online update from 8 OEM)
This is the problem since updating to 8.1 – some kind of driver update-problem-something.
I'm thinking I delete the AMD Radeon HD 7560D line-item from my Device Manager, and then when I reboot, it will be found and reinstalled. That's what I would have done with XP anyway.
Or I could uninstall the driver from within the AMD Radeon properties window above (Drivers tab) – but I'm afraid I will lose the screen and a reboot won't fix that, and then I'm stuck with re-imaging the OS from the OEM partition.
I'm sure I rebooted yesterday after the update – but I only noticed the very-black-black leterbox this morning. I'm not 100% certain it was caused from the update, but I am 100% certain letterbox was not happening before the update. The time/date stamp in the image above corresponds with my 8.1 update yesterday.
Thoughts? (read: warnings or alternatives before I nuke this control panel item?)
Thanks!
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop