Recent content by AlexBW

Yes, my TV only supports 720p but, I am able to play 1080 as well. I experimented with all the options in nVidia control panel like setting the GPU to do the scaling vs the display etc., it made no difference at all. One interesting thing I noticed that, if I set OpenGL as the driver for...

My TV doesn't give me the option to switch between 1080i/p and 720p. An aspect ratio of 4:3 makes the viewing area too small as I believe it uses only about half the screen width with the image centered. I do not switch between computers, my TV is connected to my computer and I rarely switch to...

That fixes it. I am at a loss here. There was a time when I made linux KDE run on my video hardware (a SiS vid card and a CRT monitor) by calculating the scan modes manually and I thought I knew everything about displays ! Guess it is time to update my knowledge with the latest knowhow !? OK...

Thank you both for your replies. I am using nVidia GTX 660 Ti (2 way SLI) with the latest nVidia drivers and a 51" Samsung Plasma TV PN51F4500AF (Specs - Plasma TV PN51F4500AF | Samsung TVs). I have tried all the option on the nVidia settings as pointed by XweAponX and it apparently makes no...

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I have been having this problem for the last few weeks and haven't been able to find a solution yet. When I play videos on youtube, WMP, mplayer or adobe air/flash, video app or whatever, the entire display/screen moves to the left and leaves a black rectangle on the right side of the plasma TV...

I just read somewhere that Shift+F8 brings up the recovery options menu. But on faster machines it may not be possible to interrupt as win8 waits for the key press for a very short time. Another website advised that you hold the shift key pressed and keep hitting F8 ! You can enter this...

Ah ! Unfortunately I couldn't tell about the LEDs on the keyboard as my keyboard doesn't have any as it is a wireless keyboard and I guess that's so as to consume less battery power ! But I can see that the LED on the tower lits up frequently indicating HDD activity suggesting normal system...

It doesn't respond to the keyboard so, there is no way I can interact with the system when encountered with black screen! I reinstalled win8 and all my programs, it worked fine until I launched a game, it crashed in 5 minutes with corrupt display. I had to hit the reset button. I am trying to...

Thanks for the reply. I actually started off with the signed stable driver and that is what I used in my first installation. Not sure installing those drivers would help me. Without being able to boot into the system I don't k ow how I can install the stable drivers. There don't seem to an...

Ever since I installed windows 8 I've been going through a lot of frustrations. First installation went corrupt in someway because of hybrid standby. I put the pc in standby and an hour later when I resumed, games started crashing. I couldn't even produce a dump file for debugging the problem ...