[Solved]Suddenly, 16:9 is no longer supported

[Tossie]

Week or so ago I came home to find that my monitor was just...messed up.

When it should have looked like this (imagine this is 1920x1080):

It instead looked like this, but a whole lot blurrier:

I noticed my TV showed everything like it should (I use it as a second monitor at times), and my first thought was that the TV was somehow set as the primary monitor. I went to change it only to see that that wasn't the issue. I then unplugged the TV from the computer and that now my monitor works....but only with a 4:3 aspect ratio and the max resolution being 1600x1200. I tried manually adding 1920x1080 with the Nvidia Control Panel thing, but doing that just causes an inch or so of the left side of the screen to be hidden.

While being stuck at 1600x1200 isn't that much of a problem most of the time, this problem is causing some games to CTD when I go into fullscreen.

Specs

Gwafix Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 925

RAM: 6GB

Monitor: 24" SCEPTRE X24WG-1080P

I feel like I'm forgetting something...

[Ryanhabs]

I don't know what would cause that off the top of my head but have you tried deleting the drivers and doing a fresh install of nvidia drivers? I know when I swapped from a 560 ti to a 580 even though the driver set was the same the 580 didn't pick up the 1920 x 1080 as a default resolution and left a black square outline around my screen until I uninstalled the drivers and re-installed them clean.

[Tossie]

Will try, but could a reaction like this be delayed for a month or so? Got the 560 Ti on Christmas and 1920x1080 was working perfectly fine like it did for the 3 or 4 years with my Radeon HD 5770.

[Tossie]

With the help of Cyb3r, I now have a not broken resolution and have removed the bits that were left over from my Radeon HD 5770 that were causing this.

If anyone else has this problem and runs across this thread:

1. Download Drive Sweeper
   
2. Run Drive Sweeper to remove any remnants of past drivers* (ATI in my case)
   
3. Reboot
   
4. Uninstall current drivers
   
5. Reboot
   
6. Reinstall drivers
   
7. Reboot
   
8. Use Drive Sweeper to clean the Display and PhysX driver
   
9. Reboot
   
10. Reinstall driver
    
11. Reboot
    
12. Recalibrate monitor if needed
    

*If your current driver is not a different brand than previous ones, then according to Cyb3r, the following directions should suffice:

1. Uninstall
   
2. Reboot
   
3. Clean
   
4. Reboot
   
5. Reinstall
   

Credit goes to Cyb3r for these directions

And for comparison's sake, here's what my desktop looks like when fixed:

[Ryanhabs]

Ahh yes, if left over parts from a different card are there it will cause issues. Glad its all fixed up.