First time....

You will need to open up your display properties and specify that your monitor is 1280x1024. That should solve the problem. Go to your control panel and open your display then adjust the resolution to 1280x1024. I looked up your monitor and thats the resolution. Any other resolution setting will make it look goofy. Hope that helps.

steve

Then you have the wrong setting. Try the others some monitors do not work with all settings. You also have to get the ratio size for you screen. Mine it set at 1680x1050.

Bobberrific said:

Perhaps just try resizing the horizontal width of the display via your monitors buttons.


Or try some more resolution settings.

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If you drivers are good and your monitor is working correctly you should NEVER have to adjust the monitor itself. The only exception being the brightness on some of the cheaper monitors.

Do a windows update. When you get to the window that you have a choice of "Express" or "Custom", choose "Custom". Once windows goes through its thing, look at the "Hardware" updates. There will probably be an update for your video driver and/or your monitor. Install what ever is there and it should take care of the issue.

I've got an HP monitor at work and it acted a little wacky when I first installed it. After the update, it did fine.

--Scott

Can you double check the model number for the monitor again? The HP w1707 isn't listed on HPs website as a monitor that they've made.
below is the site.
http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Nav?..._client=S-A-R163-1&h_page=hpcom&lang=en&cc=us

The closest one to it is the 19 inch w1907 that has a native resolution of 1440x900. Every monitor has a native resolution that they should be run on and you can figure this out by googling the monitor model number and native resolution (w1907 native resolution.) When I do this for the w1707 it comes up with some table saw...

Panning mode... I hate when it does that.

If installing the monitor & NVidia drivers doesn't do it, look around in the NVidia control panel & the monitor menus for scaling options. If I remember right there should be settings both places if you're using DVI. I can't really check without moving stuff around- I've got my LCD hooked up to my laptop & it's using analog.
Most monitors & the NVidia drivers have options to stretch the image to fit & 1:1 mapping (so you get black borders at a lower than native res.) Some also have stuff like stretch & preserve aspect ratio, so if you run a 4:3 res on a widescreen it'll stretch it vertically to fill the screen but leave blank spaces on the side so the aspect ratio stays 4:3.

Another thing that happens with some LCDs is it ends up in "HDTV mode". This often doesn't work right with a computer. Yours doesn't have HDMI or component inputs according to the specs so it probably won't do this, but if you see an HDTV/Computer Monitor setting in the monitor's menus be sure it's set to computer.