screen size not detected

[Colin Law]

On 25 January 2014 17:26,  <gideon425.gb7 at mailnull.com> wrote:
>> What kind of screen do you have and what kind of connection
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>> from graphics card to screen?
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> It is a BENQ monitor - a widescreen 19:6 it seems to me.
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> The cable is, I think, just a standard monitor cable with blue ends.
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> I want to thank you for asking about this as it caused me to unplug the cable from the computer and plug in back in - which caused the display to right itself. Not sure why this worked but I will make a note of this for the future.

I find that I have to make sure the monitor is powered up when I boot
the PC (or resume from suspend) otherwise the monitor is not correctly
recognised.  Disconnecting and reconnecting fixes it.  Perhaps this
was your problem.

Colin