My wife recently bought me (birthday gift) a 32" Philips LCD Monitor, right about the time a converted to purely mac. i was able to make everything work but the problem is that the menu bar on top is "Invisible" meaning it's off the screen but i can still access it just by pointing the mouse to the approsimatel area. I tried everything including changing all the display resolution but the resolution that seems to e stable is at 720p. It "wiggles" on any other resolution. I also tried it from the monitor side and tried adjusting the viewing format but it remained the same. Anyone know how to recover the menu bar?
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Philips 32" Lcd As An External Monitor
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balamw
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What Mac? What input are you using on the TV (VGA/DVI/HDMI)?
I am curious as we we will be getting a similar TV (27" Toshiba) after Christmas. I know it supports 720p in a 1280x720 resolution and I was seriously considering attaching a Mac mini to the HDMI port, but when I visited the Apple retail store near me 1280x720 did not seem to be a supported resolution, only 1280x768 which sounds like it would yield the kind of problems you are seeing. 😕
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I am curious as we we will be getting a similar TV (27" Toshiba) after Christmas. I know it supports 720p in a 1280x720 resolution and I was seriously considering attaching a Mac mini to the HDMI port, but when I visited the Apple retail store near me 1280x720 did not seem to be a supported resolution, only 1280x768 which sounds like it would yield the kind of problems you are seeing. 😕
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mkrishnan
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You may need an app like SwitchResX (see this ) to set up the exact display settings that TV requires....