System Preferences

I have somehow managed to mess up the screen view on my imac G4 OS X 10.4 The image doesn't fill the screen and if I alter the display setting to 800 x 600 stretched to get it to fill out, I can't get the font & icon sizes right and it looks slightly blurred.

Can someone advise on the correct settings please (17 inch monitor)

cheers

My 17" LCD screen (Apple) runs at 1280x1024 with a nVidia Ge Force 6200 Graphics card,

Thanks for your reply - I don't have that setting but I've just tried 1152 x 720 and that seems better. It would be good to know what the 'correct' setting is though.

Whatever works best for you and your video card is just fine, Griffo. You do not say what machine you have, however here is a link to resolution of the 17" display with MDD.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=85808

It's an imac G4 PowerPC- 800MHz with 768 MB of SDRAM

just try all the settings and see which looks normal?

You can also try using the Displays option in Preferences and "Detect" the screens. This should query the screens connected and present you with resolution choices and it will "know" the size of the monitor by this point.

Native resolution on a G4/800 17" is 1440 x 900.

And the rest of the spec's.

And from Apple.

thanks for EM

good job finally just pointing to everymac. should have started there.