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So long story short I'm gonna be building an HTPC for my family's TV. It has HDMI in the back and that's pretty much all I know. I have a parts list and an old HD 5570 that I might be using. But, what I'm worried about is res problems. One time, at a friend's house, I had to use their TV as my monitor for a LAN party. I plugged my PC in and everything booted up fine, but the output on the monitor was cut off at the edges. I'd say I was missing a good 100 pixels on the bottom. There was no way to fix it and I just dealt with it. If this happens to this PC and TV, is there a way to fix it?

 

Edit: I didn't use HDMI at my friend's house. I'm pretty sure I used VGA...

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I use a 39" TV as a monitor, through HDMI and no issues whatsoever :) I have been like this for a good 9 months

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I use a 39" TV as a monitor, through HDMI and no issues whatsoever :) I have been like this for a good 9 months

So it seems that the problem I had might have been the type of connection I was using. HDMI sounds solid here. :) thanks

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If you're using an HDMI connection you shouldn't have any problems.

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I had problems with this as well (though over hdmi). Catalyst Control Center has problems automatically scaling for TVs and pretty much always gets it wrong, you have to go in and change the settings yourself. It's really simple though as it's just a single slider bar that will probably be pushed to one end or the other.

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If it's doing it over VGA it's probably being overscanned by the TV. AMD automatically compensates for it but only over HDMI (as many people have experienced, as a black border around their screen; that's supposed to compensate for this cut-off behavior that TVs do).

The best solution is to go into the TV's menu and see if you can adjust the scan setting to "just scan" or "1:1" or something like that. If the TV doesn't have an option for that you can underscan through Catalyst Control Center but you'll lose image quality this way.

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