Just Got wide monitor now Jpegs are too wide !

Hi Guys

I just bought a Chimei 22" wide monitor, and am very pleased with it so far.

Except that when I plugged it in, Windows XP did not see it as a new plug and play device.

My main problem is that all of my Jpegs seem to be stretched too wide so that any pictures of say swimsuit models look short and squat.

Any suggestions ?

I have tried several display settings. (all do the same thing !)

Regards

Digby
NZ

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Originally Posted by digmen1

I have tried several display settings. (all do the same thing !)

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that is sorta what i was gonna say. that problem ur having is when u don't use the monitors native rez. find out what it is and use it and it "should" go away and look normal.

What's the ratio of your monitor?

If it is 16:9, try 1280 by 720.
If it is 16:10 (which is what googling suggests) try 1280 by 800.

If you've got the 221D then the format (1680 by 1050) isn't directly supported by XP, but I imagine you probably got a disk which will sort this out.

Better still, you could just tell us exactly what model you've got.

And even show us some pics of her in her swimsuit. :naughty:

Thanks for that.

This has been a help, I cannot find the ratios in my printed manual, it is a 221D. I do not wish to use 1680 x 1050 as the desk top icons are far too small for my liking.

I went to Control Panel/Display/Settings and tried to find those ratios on the slider, but they do not seem to be there. So I tried 1280 x 768 and this seems to be be fairly good at this stage.

Is there any way of manually typing in these settings rather than just using the slider ?

Thanks once again.

My model is actually Jennifer Lopez and she only works for me (ha ha)

Regards

Digby

You can always put the higher resoloution on, and enable "large icons"

The correct ratio for the 221D is 16:10 and consequently the proper settings would be 1280x800.

AFAIK you can't key this in, but you can easily set this by clicking on the slider, then moving the slider with the arrow keys until you find the desired setting.

However, for better reproduction you should use the native resolution then adjust sizes as Smith suggests - you'll probably want to change DPI too. I suspect that your previous monitor was simply listed as Default Monitor which is why it doesn't update. Delete this from Device Manager and reboot - it should now detect your PnP monitor.