black border as resolution increases..

[daveisconfused]

Hello, I just got a Samsung 225BW monitor today and I love it excep for the fact that if i go above 1280 x 1024, there is about 2 inches of black space in between the sides of the monitor and the image itself. Its on my Radeon 9800 (if that has anything to do with it). and I really cant stand 1280 x 768 so i need to fix this.

any suggestions?

 

[Napalm=)]

why arent you using a widescreen resolution

 

[zigaroo]

The 225BW runs natively at 1680x1050; however, according to this your 9800 does not support it.

I am not informative on what the latest drivers may allow your card to handle so you may or may not be out of luck.

 

[Blerg187]

He should still be able to create it as a custom resolution with powerstrip or something, i did that with a tnt2 so i'm sure a 9800 can also. But black borders on the sides must mean you are trying 4x3 resolutions, which are supposed to look that way on a ws monitor unless you manually stretch it to fit the screen.