screen size

[oftentired]

All I needed to read was "just installed windows". This problem is typical of new windows installations after which the End User is unaware that the correct drivers for both the Video Card and the Monitor likely need to be installed before they will be able to fine tune the Screen settings.

One might also suggest that you should be sure to install the drivers specific to your Motherboard chipset before installing any other drivers or programs (except possibly a ZIP program in some cases where you would need it to unzip a driver file). And do not install your Anti-virus or Firewall until the very last.

And if you have the system deliberately overclocked you should bring it back down to a normal speed for the installation of Windows and subsequent drivers.

[carloc]

All I needed to read was "just installed windows". This problem is typical of new windows installations after which the End User is unaware that the correct drivers for both the Video Card and the Monitor likely need to be installed before they will be able to fine tune the Screen settings.

One might also suggest that you should be sure to install the drivers specific to your Motherboard chipset before installing any other drivers or programs (except possibly a ZIP program in some cases where you would need it to unzip a driver file). And do not install your Anti-virus or Firewall until the very last.

And if you have the system deliberately overclocked you should bring it back down to a normal speed for the installation of Windows and subsequent drivers.

I'm agree with you oftentired. The only correct installation sequence that made my PC working fine with custom screen setting is:

1. Restore any setting to default
2. Chipset AGP driver
3. Monitor driver
4. Graphic card driver