I am using an Olevia 232V and a newly purchased computer a m9077c (link here: it will not let me post the link but it can be found by searching m9077c at buy . com and the graphics card is a nvidia 8500GT. I initially(after I found out that just the tv wouldn't work at all on its own) connected a monitor (vga via dvi converter) and the hdtv (via HDMI) at the same time to find a resolution that the tv would display. The resolutions that are reccomended for the tv would not and will not work such as: 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 720, 1280 x 768, and 1360 x 768(the ideal choice.) The resolution that I am currently using is 1216 x 1084 and as a result the picture is smaller than the screen. I can successfully resize it but everytime I reboot or my computer goes to sleep it shrinks again. And when I try to play video games like Diablo II the monitor says invalid format and displays a black screen until I exit the game. Hopefully someone can tell me how to get the standard resolutions to work because I am baffled and do not have any other monitor as the one I used to find initial resolutions belonged to a friend. Thank you all in advance for you assistance.

Do a straight VGA to VGA connection from the computer to the TV.

I have the exact same TV and I use 1360x768 in 1:1 aspect ratio (not stretched the extra 6 pixels).

I prefered the VGA over HDMI because the HDMI was TOO sharp, and it looked sparkly.

VGA look fantastic.

Hope it helps.

-Brian

Edit: Needed to add that what I say is true only if you calibrate your TV, otherwise it is painful to look at IMO!

the computer does not have a vga port which is why it came with a dvi to vga converter thank you for the suggestion though.

Maybe the refresh rate or scan rate is too high?

Check that, might help.

-Brian

I set the refresh rate to the reccomended 60 hz and I am unfamiliar with the term scan rate unless it means the same thing. But I tried the reccomended resolutions at all the refresh rates available to no avail.

I'm using 1360x768 @ 60hz refresh rate via VGA and it's working great.

I can't imagine why HDMI would give you a problem.

Did you get the latest NVIDIA drivers off of their site for you video card?

-Brian

Yes I have updated the drivers.

I'm sorry to say, I'm out of ideas :(

I hope you figure something out.

-Brian

Thank you anyway hopefully someone else can help.

Did you look into Powerstrip?

You can google it.

It provides ALL sorts of resolution and timing adjustments.

-Brian

I just installed powerstrip and tried to change the resolution using that and that did not work either.