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bex91

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Dec 27, 2012
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Hi everyone,

This is my first post here, I hope it's the first of many. :)

Well, I've been using my Macbook Pro 13' for 6 months now, everything running smoothly.

I bought an external monitor today ( http://www.asus.com/Display/LCD_Monitors/VE247H/ ) and connected to it through a VGA cable, but I can't get it to work properly with a 1920x1080 resolution.

There's always a black bar in the left side of the screen. It doesn't make any difference to the OS windows and resolution, but it's wasted space and I expect there is some way to correct this.

Another problem is that I can easily see black bars across the whole screen, specially with a dark blackground. Again, it doesn't affect the resolution but it's uncomfortable to watch.

I've searched the internet and maybe the problem can be with the VGA. Do you think a DVI cable will solve this problem? I bought the VGA adapter and I'm kinda reluctant to spend another 30$ in a similar device, so if I could continue to use the VGA cable it would be nice.

Sorry for the long post and thank you for your attention!
 
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Never used an ASUS monitor, but the spec sheet on the site says it has an adjustable aspect control?

Maybe you are stuck on 4:3 as opposed to 16:9 ?

trying going through the menus and see if you can force it to 16:9, if it is indeed stuck on 4:3.
 
Solved with a DVI. I could't do anything regarding the aspect control, so I just bought the adapter and now everything is fine.

Thanks anyway. :)
 
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