What about this TV?

[rdowdy95]

Yeah I know how to size up my 640x480 in Windows XP to show everything on the screen, but the things I do in Windows on the desktop and stuff don't save to when I do stuff in command line of Mame and Mamewah.  Like I said I have minimal overscan.  So I just leave all my settings in ATI Control Panel to centered

Greaser what version of MAME are you using.  And is your mame ini file set to resolution 640x480?

Also how are you getting everything to show on the Windows Desktop?  Are you using Powerstrip?  If not how are you sizing up the screen in Windows?

[greaser]

using 109 of mame32

not using any software such as powerstrip and everything under mame32 and mamewah is set to 640x480 and 32 bit color.

Not really doing anything special in order for everything to show up on desktop. Just standard resolution setting.

I'll check back here in a bit. Need to clean up around here before my girlfriend gets home.

[rdowdy95]

Thats pretty cool man.  Like I say I get minor overscan, but picture is nice and centered.  I need to get my stuff in the same res for all MAME resolutions.

[ahofle]

If you are using MAME32, you HAVE to set the screen manually under the 'screen' tab of the options dialog (just set it to the first item in the dropdown).  Then you can set the resolution to 640x480.  If you leave the screen as 'auto' it will ignore your resolution setting.

[acevedor2]

Thanks guys for all of the help.  In the end it was the crappy laptop video adapter.  I swapped and used it on one of my PC's and it looked great (and yes that TV is a PITA to move!)  The PC is using a Nvidia 7300 w/256MB

Here are some pics.  I am using Mame32 and never changed anything under t he Mame options menu.  I just set the video mode to clone, the pc resolution to 640x480 and the screen was perfect. 

Greaser - nice cab. What are you using for the bezel around the monitor?  I bought a 27" Happ and I am curious to see if it fits!

Cheers and thanks again!!!