Nvidia 8800 GTS, 1080p, is something wrong ?

[scotslad]

I am using an old Nvidia 8800 GTS 320MB model just now and have been for a while.

In general it works ok but I kept meaning to ask if this is correct.

When I boot the pc it always starts up on screen and the normal text comes up that tells us all about the hardware details etc as normal, BUT, I have always noticed that the picture is too large for my screen (during boot) and the words are slightly cut off at the side etc, its always done that, and it says whilst booting "720p" yet in Nvidia control panel it is set to 1080p HD as native (its a 42inch sony tv that can display 1920 x 1080p no problem). (its connected to the tv with the HDMI port on the telly).

Anyways, once it passes the first few seconds of the boot process it just sorts itself out and either displays in 1080p or upscales to 1080p or something (picture fits perfect), I don't know.

I have never really bothered with it but as I say, its something I always meant to ask about, is this right and normal what it is doing or have I completely overlooked something maybe in the bios or somewhere else, I haven't a clue to be honest with this kind of thing ?

Thanks.

 

[Deceptor]

I'd assume it's the TV readjusting to fit the image properly which isn't uncommon. Tried plugging in a monitor and see if that works fine?

 

[ED209]

as Dec said it sounds like a TV rather than a PC monitor.

i get the same thing when i turn on my Now TV box or used to get this when i turned on my virgin media box as when it displays the powering up screen it said 720p then would flicker and once tv was on and box finished booting it would change to 1080P and was fine after that.

 

[scotslad]

I'd assume it's the TV readjusting to fit the image properly which isn't uncommon. Tried plugging in a monitor and see if that works fine?

hmm, thanks, don't have a spare monitor though.

Is it just upscaling maybe ?? I am pretty much sure that type of card even though its old can still produce a 1920x1080 image or much higher.

Seems strange that it seems to be booting in 720p and then it fixes itself or something, maybe its normal, I don't know.

 

[scotslad]

as Dec said it sounds like a TV rather than a PC monitor.

i get the same thing when i turn on my Now TV box or used to get this when i turned on my virgin media box as when it displays the powering up screen it said 720p then would flicker and once tv was on and box finished booting it would change to 1080P and was fine after that.

ahh I see, ok, must be normal then I suppose

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Is it conneceted via DVI or something else (not sure if HDMI is available on something that old)

I've had trouble with getting gfx cards to display 1080p via HDMi and only displaying a maximum of 720p, no such issues with DVI though.

 

[scotslad]

Is it conneceted via DVI or something else (not sure if HDMI is available on something that old)

I've had trouble with getting gfx cards to display 1080p via HDMi and only displaying a maximum of 720p, no such issues with DVI though.

its connected dvi on the card to hdmi on the tv mate

 

[Porl]

The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) post screen (Power On Self Test) runs at a legacy resolution of 640x480 (from memory), I very much doubt that your HDTV has a screen mode for that so it has to upscale the input to something that it can display.
If you could get it to hang on that screen by introducing an error you may be able to find an option in the TV setup menu to fix this so it displays correctly but TBH I'd just ignore it as it's quite normal.

 

[Retron]

The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) post screen (Power On Self Test) runs at a legacy resolution of 640x480 (from memory), I very much doubt that your HDTV has a screen mode for that so it has to upscale the input to something that it can display.

640x480 is associated with the standard (4:3) NTSC resolution - I would imagine most HDTVs would handle that well enough.

The traditional VGA text mode that most older PCs boot into is 720x400, which can be misreported on monitors, let alone TVs!

 

[BluD]

My TV does the same thing, i have to click a button on my remote for it to scale itself correctly, your TV been a lot newer probably just does it itself. Either that or your nvidia program just takes a while to enable its scaling profile where it just underscans a little to get it to fit.

 

[Scania]

It's the tv sorting itself out, my rig does exactly the same - via HDMI - on both my tv at home and my other halfs tv too.