New Acer wide monitor has too wide display in Win7, OK in Win10

[loninappleton]

I have loaded a good Win7 onto an Acer SA2 series monitor connected as HDMI. I get a distorted wide picture which I don't see any indications on adjustment buttons how to fix. I also tried a VGA connect but the same wide aspect ration screen.

Loading a Win10 everything falls right into place.

The monitor says on the box Adaptive sync technology.

The motherboard and CPU arer a Ryzen 5 four core and an Asus A320MK with onboard GPU on the Motherboard. All this checks out if I run AIDA.

Is it just Win7? It's not a change resolution problem. I cannot find a setting to work with.

[zing269]

If this is the same pc as your other threads and you are using the standard VGA driver then the maximum resolution you can choose is 1280 x 1024.

[loninappleton]

Thanks for answering-- yes many questions when things don't work.

This error is in Windows 7 on the HD with all my old stuff on it. It's set on the highest resolution and anything lower just expands it more. The display is like what you see in safe mode -- all huge and in this case too wide. There's no aspect ratio setting I can find in Win 7-- Ultimate I think.

Quite frankly it may be a limiting factor of the ASUS design made for Win 10

On the Acer there are the very common hard to control tiny buttons-- one says system and the manual says you can set it off of wide mode but I'd have to do that constantly and don't want to mess anything up that works at least on Win10.

The BIOS is a UEFI and I don't know if all these problems are common with it.

[hello_hello]

Have you found the setting in Control Panel?
I remember there being a shortcut to it when you right click on the desktop.
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/255-screen-resolution-display-settings.html

[loninappleton]

It's good to hear from you again and thanks for answering.

Yes I know the shortcut called Preferences on the desktop. But the settings only make things worse. VGA is just backup for this new screen if I have to use it on an older motherboard and Win7 where HDMI is not on it. I know that there is a problem with video drivers supplied with this motherboard and earlier videohelp helped me find something from the Radeon Vega era. In other words the onboard video falls in the cracks. I thought I might find one of the old Radeon from before 2019. The only thing shown (by another user) was a Vega driver that was some sort of hobbyist hack. Not very trustworthy. I'll not deal with it. All of the available ASUS drivers have a different name series-- I'm just blanking on it....

The ASUS installer disk which sets this up for Win10 does not load properly with a Win7 HD... it reverts to
some form of Linux shell. So board problems come into play.

That's the long version. Thanks for listening.

[loninappleton]

A follow up. Today I used the magic words Old Version and...

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/ati-catalyst-drivers/

This may have something that works. Just a possibility.

At the moment I'm just burnt on trying to solve all the problems of using a new setup i.e. ASUS BIOS.

[davexnet]

A follow up. Today I used the magic words Old Version and...

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/ati-catalyst-drivers/

This may have something that works. Just a possibility.

At the moment I'm just burnt on trying to solve all the problems of using a new setup i.e. ASUS BIOS.

UEFI vs. legacy bios, MBR, GPT, secure boot, all interesting stuff but it doesn't really affect your issue

There are a few posts on the AMD community forum of users experiencing failure doing what you're trying to do
with the 2200g and 2400g and Windows 7. As you mention, it works fine except for the graphics..

You could always buy a graphics adapter if you're up for spending some extra $$ -
just make sure it supports Windows 7

[loninappleton]

"Adrenaline" was the descriptor of current drivers I could not remember.

The Old Versions said they only work for XP and Win2000.

There are certain old NVidia cards available as open box that could be installed on my old MSI 760 GM with Win7.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/376015981191?_trksid=p2332490.c101875.m1851&itmprp=cksum%3A37...09Z5C4B1VJVWRB

Yikes. Well anyway it's an open box with all the original stuff on VGA.

I've just had some expenses so I'd put any of that off.

What's the concern with MBR ? I haven't had to run Bootrec yet.

[loninappleton]

"Adrenaline" was the descriptor of current drivers I could not remember.

The Old Versions said they only work for XP and Win2000.

There are certain old NVidia cards available as open box that could be installed on my old MSI 760 GM with Win7.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/376015981191?_trksid=p2332490.c101875.m1851&itmprp=cksum%3A37...09Z5C4B1VJVWRB

Yikes. Well anyway it's an open box with all the original stuff on VGA.

I've just had some expenses so I'd put any of that off.

What's the concern with MBR ? I haven't had to run Bootrec yet.

[Edit] My mistake. the graphics card is needed for the A320MK



What's the concern with MBR ? I haven't had to run Bootrec yet

[The_Doman]

A follow up. Today I used the magic words Old Version and...

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/ati-catalyst-drivers/

This may have something that works. Just a possibility.

That way too old for your Ryzen 5.
There are no official released drivers for Windows 7
What about the other post where i linked to the drivers of the Win-Raid Forum?

Possible this?

Win-Raid Forum: [Solution] Win 7/Win8.1 x64 Ryzen APU Video driver

Also, it is best to test with a separate HDD/SSD.
That is what I always do when doing my testing/experimenting.
And making image backups of course.

Also for Windows 7 you can use the Simplix UpdatePack 7 to update your system.

[zing269]

The last driver that AMD released for windows 7 is here: Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1 for Windows 7

It probably won't install but might be worth a shot. The article notes which graphics cards are supported if you are looking to pick up one that is used.

[loninappleton]

Apologies Zing and others for lack of response. I do not recall seeing an email notification for recent (mid March) replies.
The Simplex download is something I'm going to try for my Win7 setup.

[loninappleton]

From comment 4 @ hello_hello The resolution options only go to 1440 in the 5b screen shot.

(I'm working through these things one at a time-- The display at 5a of higher resolutions I do not see available. Perhaps it is the old onboard MSI 760 graphics that
is running this system' limitation.) Onward to looking at driver installs