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anyone know why my monitor keeps switching to 4:3 ratio and non-wide screen ratio?

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anyone know why my monitor keeps switching to 4:3 ratio and non-wide screen ratio?

lately... MY monitor has been doing something weird.
It keeps switching from wide to non-wide ratio. Then it stays non-wide and everything looks.... squished.

Anyone know why it does this or how to fix it? I couldn't find anything on google... I could only find answers to people trying to fix monitors that turn off by themselves!
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UrbanPoet wrote: lately... MY monitor has been doing something weird.
It keeps switching from wide to non-wide ratio. Then it stays non-wide and everything looks.... squished.

Anyone know why it does this or how to fix it? I couldn't find anything on google... I could only find answers to people trying to fix monitors that turn off by themselves!

Going to need a little bit more info.

What monitor are you using? What video card are you using? How is it hooked up to the computer? Are you using VGA or DVI?
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kennyhohoho wrote: Going to need a little bit more info.

What monitor are you using? What video card are you using? How is it hooked up to the computer? Are you using VGA or DVI?

It is a old old video card... ATI radeon 9000 or something like that... the 128mb one if that helps.

Hooked up with a VGA plug. It just keeps switching back and forth... sometimes it stays @ wide.. sometimes it stays non-wide.

I'm using Windows XP.
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UrbanPoet wrote: It is a old old video card... ATI radeon 9000 or something like that... the 128mb one if that helps.

Hooked up with a VGA plug. It just keeps switching back and forth... sometimes it stays @ wide.. sometimes it stays non-wide.

I'm using Windows XP.

Try swapping with a different VGA cable.
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UrbanPoet wrote: It is a old old video card... ATI radeon 9000 or something like that... the 128mb one if that helps.

Hooked up with a VGA plug. It just keeps switching back and forth... sometimes it stays @ wide.. sometimes it stays non-wide.

I'm using Windows XP.

Does it switch from wide to non-wide randomly, or only when you launch applications, like games, etc.?
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UrbanPoet wrote: It switches randomly without any changes in applications.

It sounds like an unstable connection, like the video card is losing it's connection to the monitor and resetting the resolution when the connection is found again, and that's why it's reverting back to 4:3, which could be the default setting.

I would try a different VGA cable and see if that helps. If not, it could be the actual VGA connector on either the monitor or the video card being wonky.

Have you tried using that monitor on a different computer, or that computer with a different monitor?

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