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Windows 8 + ATI Radeon HD 4800 + Hans.G HSG1078 = black border (overscan/sclaing)

Hi,

 

I have just updated to windows 8 and I now have a black border on my monitor. On windows 7 with the Catalyst Control Center I could set the scaling/over scan to 0 to get rid of this border. However, now that I'm on windows 8 it has installed a built in driver:

'ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1)'

 

I've tried searching through the registry and I found a key: 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Configuration\HSD2275930RX3XY01004_1E_07D9_5C^C059E9215EA15066464C327475C20A08\00\00\Scaling' which is a DWORD and was set to 0x00000004. A few posts I found online suggested setting this to 0x00000003 and then restarting windows 8, this did not solve my problem (I also tried setting it to 0, 1 and 2)

 

Additional information:

- The monitor is a native 1080p HDMI display. I'm connected with a DVI to HDMI adapter. I have only one monitor connected to my graphics card.

- I've also tried downloading the latest CCC and installing it, but it refuses to run (the graphics driver doesn't get installed, so CCC has nothing to configure)

- the auto detect tool from the AMD website fails to detect my graphics card

- I've checked many of the older posts where other people ran into this problem but most of them were resolved by installing CCC and changing the setting there, which I can't do.

 

I hope someone out there has some suggestions.

Thanks,

Mark

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Hi, 

I just upgraded my computer to Win8 last night, and today I saw the same black areas on the edges. It was really annoying since the entire screen was not being used; this is a problem I didn't have with Win7.

Anyway, I seem to have the same settings that you have and the same graphics card. I went to the AMD site, and tried to locate my specific card, but there was no help there since the drivers were not Win8 compatible. 

While I am writing this, there is a link on the main "AMD Support & Drivers" website on the "Top AMD Support Articles" section.  


Once installed, I opened the CCC and set the scaling to "0" and worked perfectly. 

I don't know if that's the CCC that you downloaded already. But, it worked for me. I hope it does for you too. 

Jesus. 

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Last updated September 1, 2023 Views 14,872 Applies to: