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Title: Annoying PC Monitor issue!
Post by: TelcoLou on January 23, 2009, 04:05:18 pm

Arrgh!!

So last night I get home SUPER stressed from work and wanted to play some SHMUPS on my machine, fired it up and noticed something after MAMEwah loaded up; the image wasn't filling the entire PC screen. There was a 1/2" black border around the edges of the image, centered. This happened once before and fixed itself after a re-boot ... but not last night ... not even after 3 reboots.

Grrr! SOOoooo, I had to lift out the monitor glass, remove the bezel and adjust the image size using the monitor's OSD. All better .. I even checked it this afternoon before I left for work; and all is well. This is puzzling to me ... what could cause this? I don't use the PC for anything but MAME, and it always auto-launches MAMEwah at startup.

One (possible) thing that I noticed is that I have my monitor's refresh rate set to 85htz, but MAMEwah is running at 75htz .. there is an "other" option for refresh rates in the MAMEwah layout designer; should I set this also to 85htz?

Thanks in advance ...

Title: Re: Annoying PC Monitor issue!
Post by: Ummon on January 23, 2009, 05:01:53 pm

Yes.

Title: Re: Annoying PC Monitor issue!
Post by: TelcoLou on January 23, 2009, 05:12:55 pm

Quote from: Ummon on January 23, 2009, 05:01:53 pm

Yes.

 ;D Thank you, I'll change it when I get home tonight .. any idea why this only now started to happen?

Title: Re: Annoying PC Monitor issue!
Post by: Kevin Mullins on January 23, 2009, 06:00:20 pm

Cuz









Sorry, couldn't help it..... I am of no use here.

Title: Re: Annoying PC Monitor issue!
Post by: Ummon on January 25, 2009, 09:06:36 pm

Well, do you know which one (desktop or Mamewah) changed?

Title: Re: Annoying PC Monitor issue!
Post by: TelcoLou on January 28, 2009, 03:48:05 pm

Quote from: Ummon on January 25, 2009, 09:06:36 pm

Well, do you know which one (desktop or Mamewah) changed?

Sorry for the late reply .. actually, it was both; the windows desktop also was "shrunk" by ~1/2" on all sides.

It hasn't happend again, and I heve yet to change the MameWah refresh rate to 85htz .. too lazy (actually, too busy chasing high scores  :laugh: )

Title: Re: Annoying PC Monitor issue!
Post by: Ummon on January 29, 2009, 08:59:16 pm

Mmm. I have noticed Windows will sometimes get looped from a switch to another resolution, though only with my PC monitor. With my multisync it almost never, if ever, does this.