{"id":525,"date":"2012-01-14T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/?p=525"},"modified":"2012-01-27T00:55:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T13:55:36","slug":"benq-monitor-hdmi-working-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2012\/01\/14\/benq-monitor-hdmi-working-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Benq Monitor and HDMI not working &#8211; FIXED"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ntsbl-1450224974\" class=\"ntsbl-before-content ntsbl-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6288941070289539\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6288941070289539\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"9356781486\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><p>Attaching a monitor to a pc via HDMI should be easy&#8230; right.<\/p>\n<p>Well on hooking up a Benq E2420HD monitor to a MSi R6850 (PM2DIGD5), the image looked terrible.<\/p>\n<p>It took a bit of tweaking but these are the steps you will need to follow to get things looking how they should.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1. Catalyst Control Centre Settings<\/h2>\n<p>In my case the software was defaulting to set the scaling options to &#8220;under scaled&#8221;! (about -7.5%)<\/p>\n<p>Turn the scaling off and set it to 0% as shown.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Catalyst.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"526\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2012\/01\/14\/benq-monitor-hdmi-working-fixed\/catalyst\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Catalyst.png\" data-orig-size=\"486,528\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Catalyst\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Catalyst-276x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Catalyst.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Catalyst.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Catalyst\" width=\"486\" height=\"528\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Catalyst.png 486w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Catalyst-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 2. Monitor Settings<\/h2>\n<p>You need to turn off the overscan feature, in the monitors OSD (on-screen display) settings.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to the Picture Advanced page and choose display mode<\/br><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"527\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2012\/01\/14\/benq-monitor-hdmi-working-fixed\/osd_1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"385,296\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"OSD_1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_1-300x230.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_1.jpg\" alt=\"On Screen Display 1\" title=\"OSD_1\" width=\"385\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_1.jpg 385w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_1-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Set the Overscan feature to OFF<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"528\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2012\/01\/14\/benq-monitor-hdmi-working-fixed\/osd_2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_2.png\" data-orig-size=\"407,264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"OSD_2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_2-300x194.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_2.png\" alt=\"On screen display overscan\" title=\"OSD_2\" width=\"407\" height=\"264\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_2.png 407w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OSD_2-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Problem solved \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attaching a monitor to a pc via HDMI should be easy&#8230; right. Well on hooking up a Benq E2420HD monitor to a MSi R6850 (PM2DIGD5), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}