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[Closed] Windows 10 borks screen resolution - please help

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Wife's accidentally clicked yes to Windows 10 and now can't get the screen focussed - stretched horizontally. Googled and reset resolution etc (screen 1920x1200). NVidia graphics card reset to same resolution. Have we missed something obvious?


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 6:27 pm
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NVidia graphics card

Have you downloaded and installed the latest drivers for your card from nvidia?


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 6:37 pm
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Definitely sounds like a driver issue


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 6:40 pm
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Ditto. Messed up my AMD drivers and laptop stopped recognising our external monitor.

The Win 10 upgrade, however, creates an automatic restore point for 1 month after upgrading to, so I just reverted back to Win 7.


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 7:06 pm
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Any updates still pending?


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 8:04 pm
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Don't think anything's pending.
I'm giving up and returning to W7. It does seem to be the nvidia driver. Thanks all


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 8:30 pm
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Is there an "auto" button on your monitor (assuming not a laptop)? Hit that.


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 8:32 pm
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??
You don't need to reinstall an OS to fix a graphics driver.

10 Go to http://www.geforce.co.uk/drivers
20 Hit Auto Driver Detect
30 Download the suggested driver
40 Perform a clean install [Install>Advanced] and deselect unnecessary options
50 Reboot
60 ??profit


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 8:37 pm
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+1 on Nvidia driver - I had to do that manually (as suggested by gofaster) on updating from 8.1 but it's fine now.


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 9:38 pm
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10 Go to http://www.geforce.co.uk/drivers
20 Hit Auto Driver Detect

At this point it was asking to install java, which I'd done...?

I'll try the nvidia driver and a new install another time. If I try again soon, the screen resolution will be impaired as MY BIG HAIRY FIST SMASHES IT'S $*@#8;>ing BLURRY FACE IN.........

and breath.

Thanks all.


 
Posted : 13/03/2016 10:19 pm
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So, did you fix it?

Don't use version 364.47 if you have downloaded it!


 
Posted : 16/03/2016 9:07 am
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Yes. She'd put in the wrong screen size into settings......
👿


 
Posted : 20/03/2016 10:57 pm
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PEBCAK.


 
Posted : 20/03/2016 11:27 pm
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Heh.


 
Posted : 21/03/2016 12:03 am
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PEBCAK

😆
New one to me


 
Posted : 22/03/2016 9:24 pm
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I did the AMD graphics driver change to get W10 to display correctly but now I keep getting a pop up to tell me there's an update for it but when I try to update it fails and gives me an error message to effect my driver isn't supported. 🙁

It all works fine but it would be nice if they had installed a driver their own sites recognition programme recognises and is capable of updating. At present it's radeon crimson 15:12 64 bit... .


 
Posted : 22/03/2016 9:47 pm

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