My monitor is 19″ yet 1024 x 768 is its native resolution?

7 Comments

1. djfear123 says:

   April 15, 2010 at 4:15 pm

   try 1280 x 1024…that seems to be native for that model.
2. vin_tanner says:

   April 15, 2010 at 5:13 pm

   Dell says that your native resolution is 1280 X 1024

   Try putting in that res. If that does not work try installing the monitor drivers for the monitor. Monitor Drivers are almost never needed, but sometimes they help.
3. vikingnoise says:

   April 15, 2010 at 6:11 pm

   If you use resolutions for aspect ratios other than 4:3 or 5:4 then things will end up stretched or squished. 4:3 resolutions are:
   640×480
   800×600
   1024×768
   1152×864
   1280×960
   1600×1200
   and possibly a few more I’m not familiar with or forgot to mention.

   The only 5:4 resolution I know of is 1280×1024, which is the maximum your monitor supports.

   If you try using a widescreen resolution then things will end up squished horizontally. Keep in mind that if Windows shows your monitor as a “Plug n Play monitor” then it doesn’t know exactly what resolutions your monitor supports, beyond what works and what doesn’t. You might have resolution options that actually go above what your monitor can handle, resulting in the edges being cropped off or the view being squeezed to fit.
4. Chaosx_vaio says:

   April 15, 2010 at 6:13 pm

   Maybe your PC’s using generic VGA drivers, so you should get updated drivers for your graphics card, to make sure that it’s up to date as well as working properly.

   Also, the reason 1024×768 looks strectches is because you’re monitor’s probably a 16:9 one, rather than a 4:3 monitor, so it’ll fill the whole area of the monitor for display, so there should be a resolution at 16:9 (even if it’s lower than 1024,768.)

   If you only see 4:3 ones, then you’ll need some sort of specific drivers for everything display related, including your monitor (if they do anything like that) and your graphics card, so that you at least get the 1280×800 resolution which is natural on a 14″, 15″ and sometimes a 16″ WXGA monitor.
5. Simon T says:

   April 15, 2010 at 6:31 pm

   Native resolution for the monitor is 1280 by 1024. That is where you should set your desktop resolution.

   If you set it to a widescreen resolution then everything will look vertically stretched.

   At 1024 by 768 the image is slightly distorted – you are displaying a 4:3 aspect ratio picture on a 5:4 aspect ratio screen. If you look at something that should be circular then it will appear slightly stretched horizontally.