Picture won't fit on screen

[jellymonster]

Hi,

I have a Mac Mini (previous model to the aluminium one) and I have just got a Kanex MDP to HDMI adapter. I plugs into the MDP and USB and it take A/V.

However there are no setting that allow me to fit the whole picture perfectly on the screen.

With my old HDMI adapter I used the 1280x720 setting, however no such thing exists now.

How can I get round this?

Thanks
JM

 

[ZMacintosh]

Are you mirroring the display?
check display settings in system preferences.

or did you not click on overscan or uncheck it whatever the opposite is of what your experiencing?

 

[jellymonster]

Are you mirroring the display?
check display settings in system preferences.

or did you not click on overscan or uncheck it whatever the opposite is of what your experiencing?

I have tried both with and without overscan. It's either too big or too small =S.

I am using just one monitor

 

[ActionableMango]

Why did you switch HDMI adapters?

If all else fails, you can try SwitchResX.

 

[MacHamster68]

it also depends on your tv settings , and cables, adapters used , i found that after hours of setting up everything forwards and backwards and getting nervous breakdowns in between
short story i bought a small 15"black /silver polaroid tv with hdmi in , so i bought for my mini G4 a dvi to hdmi cable , worked perfect , after fiddling around in settings of the mini and of the tv but i did want to match the tv to my other Mac's around which are obviously all white , so i bought nearly the same model of tv but in pure white , changed the stand over from the black/silver one as i did want it matching to the iMac white housing silver foot , to make it short this newer tv also from polaroid also 15" but the serial number was a bit different and it would not recognise the mini over hdmi with the previously working resolution despite in the manual both tv's have the same resolution i always got always only ridiculous resolutions no mater what i did , went into settings of the tv changed whatever i could there but nothing
it simply would not display in nativ resolution
a mate gave me the idea to try out a different dvi to hdmi cable
i thought dvi is dvi and hdmi is hdmi so where would be the difference between them ..ok gold plated or not but i could not think of anything else
but the differences are huge as i had to find out after googling there is dvi-i dvi-d ..... single and double link,so i found out my dvi to hdmi was on the dvi side a dvi-d single link , so i bought one cable which had some pins more on the dvi side means dvi-d double link and surprise it worked like a charm full resolution was back , so maybe its the same thing with your adapters

i know the MDP is different to the dvi but its still a connection and if some signal doesn't come over through all the adapters used then you can setup whatever you want without a result