Question : Problem: Monitor Image Shifts Sideways

I have an HP Pavilion dv4000 laptop with an external analog monitor port.  In that port, I plug in a Viewsonic V!1703wb widescreen LCD monitor, for an extended desktop under WinXP.  

Here's the problem.  Whenever I have the monitor plugged in and hit "auto adjust" on the monitor, the monitor auto-adjusts its centering WAY off.  In other words, a black bar appears on the left, and the entire image is shifted to the right about 3 inches.  The manual adjustment options on the monitor won't correct for quite this large a gap, so I'm stuck with several inches of unusable monitor, not to mention the part of the image that's off the right side of the screen.

To fix this, I have to unplug the monitor, locate another computer with a monitor out port, plug it in there, press auto-adjust while hooked up to THAT computer on the correct resolution, and the problem fixes itself.  I can then take the monitor back to my own computer, and everything looks fine (until I accidentally hit the auto-adjust key again).

Here's the kicker: this only happens on the native resolution (1440 x 900).  Every other resolution auto-adjusts (and looks) fine, no matter what computer I put it on.  Even the "memory recall" option on the monitor (to reset to factory defaults) doesn't fix the problem.

I called ViewSonic tech support, and they assure me that it's my computer.  Of course, when I talk to HP, they assure me that it's the monitor.  Can anyone shed any light on this situation?

Answer : Problem: Monitor Image Shifts Sideways

I was joking, like ViewSonic and HP tech support also did.

Would be interesting to see the Viewsonic on another laptop, if it will work the same way, then let it alone.

I would search for an upgrade to laptop video card driver.

Isn't it a BIOS setting for the video output?

Verify the video connector pins to not be dirty one of them.