Hi, Need a little help with an Acer 1917

Hi,

I'm back.
Hoping for some brilliant insight on my mediocre little problem.
And yes i had to re-align my monitor again, as i have to every time.
It really is irksome and tedious.

I am however making some sense of what is happening with it.
It seems to me that it is in some 'AUTO' mode,
and it aligns itself very nicely with the display that its getting from the PC.

Which is nice of it.
It obviously thinks its being helpful,
by aligning itself very nicely and neatly with the display that its being given.

And it does align itself quite correctly, and the display shows perfectly correctly.

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But,
that display is the pre-pages, sometimes called the 'C-mos'
and it only stays up briefly.
Then my PC (and, i suspect most other PCs) settles into its running mode,
with higher res than the pre-pages (sometimes wrongly called the DOS)
which now are displayed all wrong.

So to use the machine you have to go over the settings on the monitor.
Its not just a bit out, its almost cut in half.

I have found that if i change the orientation from landscape to portrait
(or maybe any other) it kicks in the 'AUTO' and repositions the display perfectly.
Then i have to 'revert' back to landscape and all is well.

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So it might be possible to write a small batch file, which runs when Win7 starts,
to change to portrait, then back to landscape.

Which would mean that it will sort itself out and display properly.
But i dunno how to do such a bat file.

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I would be much happier if it would just behave like every other monitor ive ever had,
and be normal.

I am sure its not supposed to be like this.

Any help or advice wecomed,

John

Hi,
.
I have found that by changing the High Colour (16 bit) to
True Colour (32 bit) i can see no difference in the display.
Other than the 'AUTO ALIGN' kicks in,
and lines everything up nicely.
.
There might be a way to kick in the 'Auto-Align',
by actually asking somehow for the 'Auto-Align' to operate,
but such a facility seems to have been overlooked by 'ADVENT'
the manufacturers of my desktop.
.
There are many resolutions, many different options, and many
settings and instructions available to the user, but i would
guess that the assemblers of the monitor control panel in my
ADVENT machine probably did not expect a monitor to line itself
up neatly with the Pre-pages, and then ignore the usual highr
res display which comes on when the PC proper starts up into
its normal running mode.
.
Maybe theres a tick box somewhere ...
"Dont align on the black and white bits"
.
Or maybe a tick box for
"wait til win7 is running before aligning"
.
Having to re align this monitor every time i use it
is really annoying.
.
Surely someone else has one of these??
What do they do?
.
Do they get this carry on ?
.
Maybe i have the only one left .....
all the others have been scrapped, cos they wont work right ....
.
Hard to think that really,
I think there is a way.
.
I just dont know what it is yet.
.
Regards, John

Hi there everybody,
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I think i will embrace the arrangement of a small batch file,
to invoke the Acers auto align mechanism.
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With this end in view, i have made a start on such a beastie.
And ive put it in 'startups'
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It starts at startup, but it doesn't do anything much, it just
says 'Hello John'.
Thats my name, John.
Im still working on how to get it to do keystrokes, i dunno
yet if it can do a combo of two keys together.
But its a start.
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I will persevere with this and let you know how i get on.
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Regards, John.

Hi EvryBody!
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Well ive done some checking around and it seems so.
It would seem that one cannot send a keystroke directly from a batchfile,
however a batchfile can call a script-file,
and a script-file can apparently perform keystrokes.
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Or presumably one could simply write the script-file instead,
i dont know about that yet, i am still looking.
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But i have downloaded "Auto-it" with a view to using it to do this job.
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Back later, busy day today,
Regards to all,
.
John