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I purchased several Raspberry Pi 3s, reading the spec that their max resolution was 1920x1080.

I purchased several HP 22uh monitors to go with these, knowing their max resolution matches this.

On fully setting up my Pi, there is a 3/4" black frame around the border of the screen. For the parts displayed, the image is sharp, however I would like to use the full screen as the current display looks dumb.

I played around with the Pi and the monitor, and cannot find what settings adjustments will fix this.

Any ideas?

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    Have you tried changing the aspect ratio? There are also settings in the config.txt file that will fix this.
    – Darth Vader
    Apr 16, 2016 at 7:37
  • Where is the config.txt file? Sorry, new to Pis
    – dthree
    Apr 16, 2016 at 7:45
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    it is on boot partition
    – rav_kr
    Apr 16, 2016 at 9:31
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    Assuming you are running Raspbian you can tun sudo raspi-config under advanced options is an overscan setting. Apr 16, 2016 at 10:33
  • Thanks for the advice @SteveRobillard, that was spot on.
    – dthree
    Apr 16, 2016 at 16:10

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In your /boot/config.txt file try changing disable_overscan=1 and see what that does for the borders. If that does not help, leave disable_overscan=1 and then try changing these values as well.

overscan_left=20
overscan_right=20
Overscan_top=20
Overscan_bottom=20

It will take some trial and error to find the correct values because the correct values are monitor specific.

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Use negative values as described in the info in config.txt file

This worked for me

disable_overscan=1

overscan_left=-16
overscan_right=-16
Overscan_top=-16
Overscan_bottom=-16
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For Raspberry PI 4 B and Ubuntu 19.10, if you have black borders above and below:

vi /boot/firmware/usercfg.txt

Add the following line: disable_overscan=1

Reboot.

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I was also having the same problem at the beginning. I tried various methods and failed. I got a solution after I made a change in display settings. it worked for me.

check this article. https://www.hackerstec.com/raspberry-pi-display-black-border-troubleshooting/ follow this article it has a method that is not available in forums It has a tutorial on how to change screen settings and remove black border

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