Monitor issue

I have a twin monitor set up on my Win 7 rig with a NVIDIA GeForce GT530 GPU.

Recently I tried orienting one of the monitors ( a DELL 190FP) to portrait which works well for me as a write a lot of text-based, multi-paged documents, so I can see a lot more of the page at once.

BUT often the very bottom of the page doesn't redraw/update well and I have to scroll up and down to get the correct text/format to display. Is this something to do with refresh rate, or my card or my monitor? Is there a cure?

Thanks in advance

Dins

 

Does the other monitor show any of the same symptoms and did the Dell monitor initially work OK when you changed to portrait mode?

I'm leaning toward it being a problem with the monitor, given that the Dell 190FP would be about 9 -10 years old. (Correct me if I'm wrong )

 

Thanks for the reply,

yes the monitor is an old model... it's on its third CPU but still does what I need it too...except perhaps for the current issue. My other monitor is a more recent DellSP2008WFP, so a good suggestion to see if it will work instead. BUT the stand doesn't allow it to rotate to portrait (or I don't know how to make it work) and it does my head in trying to see if this monitor has the same problem with the rotation on the side.

i'll try to find some more time to experiment properly and come back.

D

 

It does not have anything to do with the refresh "rate" but it may be a refresh issue.

If the display in portrait mode does look correct some of the time, then I would suspect your graphics card, not the monitor. Are the drivers current?

If the other monitor does not rotate into portrait mode, it does not support it. Not all monitors do.

 

Yes all drivers up to date as of a week ago (seemed to make no difference to anything as far as I can see, this "refresh" issue has been around for much longer than that).

I can make the non rotating monitor's display rotate, I just can't physically turn the monitor to suit it because of the stand/mount... and as I say it's too confusing to test it until I find a way to physically orienting the monitor. I might just lean it against the wall and test it that way.

deadlines are stopping me from fiddling further, will come back and report.

D

 

update: Rotated other more modern of the 2 monitors. It doesn't display the problem. Must be just old technology in the old monitor.