{"id":901,"date":"2021-12-27T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T10:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=901"},"modified":"2022-11-05T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:53:18","slug":"remove-black-stripes-down-either-side-of-monitor-output-usb32vgapro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Remove Black Stripes Down Either Side of Monitor Output – USB32VGAPRO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A quick and effective way to get additional desktop space is to use a USB Graphics Adapter, in my case I used the Star Tech USB32VGAPRO. It supports a good range of resolutions but in my case I wanted to use 1680×1050 which is the same as my in-built graphics resolution outputs at. However when using the Windows 10 display settings to set the resolution to 1680×1050, the monitors connected to the USB32VGAPRO would show the picture, but it would be squashed and showing two black stripes down each side. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No changes to the monitor configuration would resolve this and in my case all monitors were identical models running identical firmware versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resolution (no pun intended) in the end was simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right click on the desktop and select: “Display Settings”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll notice the “Display Resolution”, if you change this you get the issue with the black stripes, so instead, scroll to the bottom and click on “Advanced Display Settings”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now click on the drop down and select the monitor to which the USB32VGAPRO is attached, now click on “Display Adapter Properties for Display X”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click “List All Modes”, now you pick the resolution you want, in my case 1680×1050. Then click “OK” and “OK” again to apply the settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You should now see the graphics showing as expected on the monitor i.e. without the black stripes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick and effective way to get additional desktop space is to use a USB Graphics Adapter, in my case I used the Star Tech USB32VGAPRO. It supports a good range of resolutions but in my case I wanted to use 1680×1050 which is the same as my in-built graphics resolution outputs at. However when … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}