eMachine Screen Resolution

[thunderchildobs]

I have recently purchased a emachines machine Model eME624, running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit Operating system and AMD athlon II P340 Dual-core processor 2.20 Ghz. No windows updates have been applied. Ram 2.00 Gb.
The screen is 15.6” 16:9 HD LCD.
The problem is that the screen display does not appear to be in the 16:9 format. The screen looks “stretched” horizontally.
When I click on the Screen Resolution I see the following
Display 1: Generic Pnp monitor on Standard VGA Graphics Adapter. (This is the only option)
Resolution: 1024 x 768 (This is the setting I am using). The only other option is 800 x 600. Both these options are for 4:3 format screens.
How to do I set the screen for 16:9 ? What drivers do I need to download?
Thanks
Brendan

[Barrykgerdes]

Originally Posted by thunderchildobs

I have recently purchased a emachines machine Model eME624, running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit Operating system and AMD athlon II P340 Dual-core processor 2.20 Ghz. No windows updates have been applied. Ram 2.00 Gb.
The screen is 15.6” 16:9 HD LCD.
The problem is that the screen display does not appear to be in the 16:9 format. The screen looks “stretched” horizontally.
When I click on the Screen Resolution I see the following
Display 1: Generic Pnp monitor on Standard VGA Graphics Adapter. (This is the only option)
Resolution: 1024 x 768 (This is the setting I am using). The only other option is 800 x 600. Both these options are for 4:3 format screens.
How to do I set the screen for 16:9 ? What drivers do I need to download?
Thanks
Brendan

Hi Brendan

Those are the default drivers that are video chip set independant.

You have mentioned everything about the computer except the video chip maker. You will need that to get the right drivers for the screen. Did you get an installation disk. That would have had the screen accelerator drivers which sometimes are not installed automatically.

If there are no drivers on the computer or an installation disk you will need to get them from the video chip set makers web site.

Barry

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

Try this software it tells you which drivers you need

Unknown Device Identifier

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

This is strange I just noticed the date of the O/P and it was last year I have been getting a few threads appearing from the past anyway sorry for bring up an oldie

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi Warren
You confused me too. I opened the post to give an answer and found I already had last year.

Barry

[thunderchildobs]

For what it is worth, on the eMachines web site there was a 120meg update on that fixed the problem.

Brendan