Cracked Viewsonic VE175b

[upriverpaddler]

I have a Viewsonic VE175b LCD monitor that was hit with a foriegn object travelling at high speed. There is only a small crack at the very bottom edge of the glass, but a black bar outlined with distortion along the length of the bottom. Otherwise the monitor is OK.

This means that I can use the monitor but the section of the screen with the START button and taskbar is not viewable.

Its seems that I am not allowed to reset the resolution or manipulate the vertical/ horizontal sizing to shrink the image to display inside the good area of the LCD. Any advice? Firmware updates?

 

[XeRo_Dark]

ur monitor is fuxzored and cant be fixed, updating fermware isnt going to help the screen itself is dammaged buy a new monitor, viewsonic vp171b-2 $329 from newegg, thats what im using now its a bad ass monitor 8ms responce time 1280x1024 native, 500:1 contrast 300 brightness

 

[Spare-Flair]

He wants a resolution change so that the can shrink the screen size to avoid the black bar I think.

Those settings are on your videocard under advanced display settings, somewhere there's a setting that either scales or stretches the display to the full display panel size. Also, you may be able to adjust the screen geometry manually to avoid the black bars by changing to DSUB VGA from DVI.

DVI automatically locks geometry settings.
But yeah, get a resolution like 1280x960 and you'll be good to go.

 

[upriverpaddler]

Yes, I wanted a resolution change. Thanks for the advice. The graphics card settings hadn't occured to me.