I've got a Dell E153FPb panel. I plan on building a nice box for it, but at the time being I've got it placed on an overhead projector. The problem I'm having is with the resolution. The panel is too wide to fit on the glass, so the sides of the image get cut off. Here's what I want to do. Set the resolution to 800x600, and instead of it stretching to fill the monitor, I want it to maintain the 1:1 pixel ratio and have the image not fill up the full panel. I know it can be done, because I've seen it before (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=378953) with my exact monitor. I've looked on the monitor OSD, I've check Nvidia control panel (it doesn't think I'm using an LCD so it won't let me scale), I've checked the monitor drivers, looked on Dell's website, nothing. So how do I do this?

Hello FISHMANPET

You could use Powerstrip it can do that for you. Look here in the bottom part that is what makes it possible

I did it with my screen look here

/Daninino

Cool, thanks for the link. I'd tried Powerstrip, but could't figure out how to make it do what I wanted.

By the way, I've got the same OHP as you, the 3M 920.

So I tried what you said, but Powerstrip just doesn't work. It won't let me change the "active pixels" to anything more than 824x624. I might be doing something wrong, it's hard to tell because the EnTech forums aren't particularly helpful. So what exactly did you do, and what settings did you change to get your monitor image to fit the OHP?

I personally have had no luck with powerstrip either. Anyone care to post a how-to
somewhere and pin it?

Howdy

1.) First off all you need a Graphics Card that work with Powerstrip.


When you are sure you got that proceed to next step

2.) PowerStrip menu > Display profiles > Configure
3.) Select the native resolution of your screen
4.) Click Advanced timing options > Custom resolutions
5.). Check "Lock total geometry"
6.) In the top there are 2 boxes where you can select height and width of the new resolution.
7.) Click "Add resolution" and follow the instructions on screen

Remember that you cannot use just any resolution, you have to try some different out to find what you need, I think I went through 20 before I found anything useable.



Yeah its nice it just gets hot as hell mainly because my Theater Room aint that big
Trying to get a less warm Metal Halide bulb inside

/Daninino

Back in the day when I was running my 15" CMV-520D with powerstrip, it would only work on the VGA connection, not the DVI... something to keep in mind and/or try depending on your connection to your monitor. Also, I could only run 1024x576 on my ATI 9550 card with a driver that was a little bit 'old'... the newer drivers would not let it work. (I think this problem was resolved with the newest ATI drivers however)

cheers,
gs

I figured it out myself last night. The part that I was having problems with was actual resolution vs active pixels. I was trying to set my resolutiion to 800x600 and my active pixels to 1024x768, when I should have been doing it the other way around. Once I did that, it worked just fine.

hey, im thinking of getting the E153FPb panel. How did the final project come out? did you get a quality picture?