My display is stuffed
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Hi all, booted my Win 10 Dell laptop this morning and somehow the screen resolution has changed and I can't get it back to how it was, I have a Dell U2715H monitor attached which apparently supports 2560 x 1440 res but this is not listed in the Display Settings dropdown, the recommended setting shown is 3840 x 2400 which immediately puts a thick black border on the monitor. I'm not aware of any updates that could have caused this ! any ideas guys ? everything is affected even Solitaire look half as big again as it normally does.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Is that a big black border that's unusable, or just a black box around your (now tiny) wallpaper? The manual[^] says it has "full screen support for lower resolutions", but doesn't mention anything about higher resolutions. If it's set to a resolution higher than its maximum, I'd expect it to not work at all.
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Is that a big black border that's unusable, or just a black box around your (now tiny) wallpaper? The manual[^] says it has "full screen support for lower resolutions", but doesn't mention anything about higher resolutions. If it's set to a resolution higher than its maximum, I'd expect it to not work at all.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Yes it's unusable Richard, I've set it to 1920 x 1080 now which gets rid of the border but everything just looks wrong - I can't for the life of me think what has caused this
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hi all, booted my Win 10 Dell laptop this morning and somehow the screen resolution has changed and I can't get it back to how it was, I have a Dell U2715H monitor attached which apparently supports 2560 x 1440 res but this is not listed in the Display Settings dropdown, the recommended setting shown is 3840 x 2400 which immediately puts a thick black border on the monitor. I'm not aware of any updates that could have caused this ! any ideas guys ? everything is affected even Solitaire look half as big again as it normally does.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Googling suggests this happens to others. And with different manufacturers. Seems like I recall something similar one time. But I think that was because I had added a monitor. In that case the new monitor would just not show the correct resolutions. I think I had to unplug all of the monitors then add them back.
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Googling suggests this happens to others. And with different manufacturers. Seems like I recall something similar one time. But I think that was because I had added a monitor. In that case the new monitor would just not show the correct resolutions. I think I had to unplug all of the monitors then add them back.
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Hi all, booted my Win 10 Dell laptop this morning and somehow the screen resolution has changed and I can't get it back to how it was, I have a Dell U2715H monitor attached which apparently supports 2560 x 1440 res but this is not listed in the Display Settings dropdown, the recommended setting shown is 3840 x 2400 which immediately puts a thick black border on the monitor. I'm not aware of any updates that could have caused this ! any ideas guys ? everything is affected even Solitaire look half as big again as it normally does.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hi all, booted my Win 10 Dell laptop this morning and somehow the screen resolution has changed and I can't get it back to how it was, I have a Dell U2715H monitor attached which apparently supports 2560 x 1440 res but this is not listed in the Display Settings dropdown, the recommended setting shown is 3840 x 2400 which immediately puts a thick black border on the monitor. I'm not aware of any updates that could have caused this ! any ideas guys ? everything is affected even Solitaire look half as big again as it normally does.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Check the update history* and see if you just had a automatic driver update, or manually update the drivers if not. It's also possibly worth removing the monitor from the devices list and then scanning for it again. I had to change my graphics card recently because a minor fix in a game meant my card didn't have sufficient ram to play at 1080: the best I could get then was 800x600 which was horrific to look at. But the fix was nothing to do with graphics (it was an anti-modder fix) so almost anything these days can affect seemingly unrelated systems! * How to View and Block Recently Updated Windows Drivers - MajorGeeks[^]
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Hi all, booted my Win 10 Dell laptop this morning and somehow the screen resolution has changed and I can't get it back to how it was, I have a Dell U2715H monitor attached which apparently supports 2560 x 1440 res but this is not listed in the Display Settings dropdown, the recommended setting shown is 3840 x 2400 which immediately puts a thick black border on the monitor. I'm not aware of any updates that could have caused this ! any ideas guys ? everything is affected even Solitaire look half as big again as it normally does.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
So, if this is using Intel Graphics, they do some weird things. I don't have the menu in front of me, but upon opening the Intel Graphics Control Panel app, there's a maintain display scaling checkbox and if it's not showing the proper resolution, change the refresh rate until you find the one you want. I've had to battle through this a couple of times with different monitors on our production floor. Between those two settings you should be able to get where you want to be.
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Hi all, booted my Win 10 Dell laptop this morning and somehow the screen resolution has changed and I can't get it back to how it was, I have a Dell U2715H monitor attached which apparently supports 2560 x 1440 res but this is not listed in the Display Settings dropdown, the recommended setting shown is 3840 x 2400 which immediately puts a thick black border on the monitor. I'm not aware of any updates that could have caused this ! any ideas guys ? everything is affected even Solitaire look half as big again as it normally does.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
I had this problem with a new Windows 11 laptop that I attempted to downgrade to the Windows 10 system it was replacing. The driver for the new adaptor was written only for Windows 11. I had to upgrade to Windows 11 before I could install the driver and fix the problem.
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Hi all, booted my Win 10 Dell laptop this morning and somehow the screen resolution has changed and I can't get it back to how it was, I have a Dell U2715H monitor attached which apparently supports 2560 x 1440 res but this is not listed in the Display Settings dropdown, the recommended setting shown is 3840 x 2400 which immediately puts a thick black border on the monitor. I'm not aware of any updates that could have caused this ! any ideas guys ? everything is affected even Solitaire look half as big again as it normally does.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hi all, booted my Win 10 Dell laptop this morning and somehow the screen resolution has changed and I can't get it back to how it was, I have a Dell U2715H monitor attached which apparently supports 2560 x 1440 res but this is not listed in the Display Settings dropdown, the recommended setting shown is 3840 x 2400 which immediately puts a thick black border on the monitor. I'm not aware of any updates that could have caused this ! any ideas guys ? everything is affected even Solitaire look half as big again as it normally does.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
You should check the Windows display settings. See what the display resolution is set to, also scaling, advanced scaling settings, advanced display settings, and as I remember there are some more settings for accessibility. These can all affect the display.
