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I was able to get High Sierra installed and successfully booted on my MSI Z370I/i7 8700K 3.7Ghz Hackintosh, but the bottom of the screen (and dock) are getting clipped on my display, which is an Acer S277HK 4K monitor.

To post an image here, I took a screen grab, but it actually captured the entire screen and dock without any clipping. So I had to manually create the attached example to show what I'm seeing. It's certainly not a deal-breaker, but it is annoying!

I've checked all of the settings on the monitor's OSD, but there wasn't a setting for height/width/positioning, as you might find back the cathode ray monitor days.
 

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I was able to get High Sierra installed and successfully booted on my MSI Z370I/i7 8700K 3.7Ghz Hackintosh, but the bottom of the screen (and dock) are getting clipped on my display, which is an Acer S277HK 4K monitor.

To post an image here, I took a screen grab, but it actually captured the entire screen and dock without any clipping. So I had to manually create the attached example to show what I'm seeing. It's certainly not a deal-breaker, but it is annoying!

I've checked all of the settings on the monitor's OSD, but there wasn't a setting for height/width/positioning, as you might find back the cathode ray monitor days.
  • I have uploaded edited image of your Desktop screen.
  • Are you saying the total side to side length (Width) of your Dock is smaller than you are accustomed to see?
  • If that is the case, see my edited portion of your Dock with an arrow showing a loupe and a vertical line ?
  • If you drag that line, it will show how you can resize the dock.
  • If you really want to know how it works, Click "System Preferences. Dock> Size" and move slider to the Right to increase. [See uploaded image]
 

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  • I have uploaded edited image of your Desktop screen.
  • Are you saying the total side to side length (Width) of your Dock is smaller than you are accustomed to see?
  • If that is the case, see my edited portion of your Dock with an arrow showing a loupe and a vertical line ?
  • If you drag that line, it will show how you can resize the dock.
  • If you really want to know how it works, Click "System Preferences. Dock> Size" and move slider to the Right to increase. [See uploaded image]
Thanks for the reply, but...the settings have no effect whatsoever (as a matter of fact, I set the dock to ‘hide’ so as not to see only the top half of it showing. As indicated by the screen capture, the OS is ‘sending’ the full desktop and dock, but it’s just not being displayed properly.
 
Thanks for the reply, but...the settings have no effect whatsoever (as a matter of fact, I set the dock to ‘hide’ so as not to see only the top half of it showing. As indicated by the screen capture, the OS is ‘sending’ the full desktop and dock, but it’s just not being displayed properly.
  • Do you want to try the terminal command and see if that will fix any corrupt files:
  • Launch Terminal and type and ENTER
killall Dock [ENTER]
  • reboot after this and see.
 
  • Launch Terminal and type and ENTER
killall Dock [ENTER]
  • reboot after this and see.

Unfortunately I tried, but it didn’t fix the issue. I’m guessing it’s likely an issue either related to the integrated graphics, or a non-user adjustable calibration issue with the monitor. I’m going to try another monitor tomorrow, but guessing that doing so may make the problem disappear. If it doesn’t, I think that might point towards a GPU issue.
 
According to the link below, this seems this is an overscan issue. Unfortunately, my Display Preferences panel lacks the controls shown on Apple's page. I wonder if there is a monitor definition file that I need to add, or something else to allow me to make the necessary adjustments.

If anyone has an ideas, I'd appreciate any and all suggestions!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202763
 
In an effort to resolve this issue, I tried SwitchResX, but its settings are so obscure as to make it impossible to determine how to adjust the screen image, if that's even possible.

When first turning the monitor on, the illumination (active pixels) extends the bottom edge of the screen (within 1/32" of the bezel). The attached diagram illustrates what's happening.

overscan.jpg
 
I was able to get High Sierra installed and successfully booted on my MSI Z370I/i7 8700K 3.7Ghz Hackintosh, but the bottom of the screen (and dock) are getting clipped on my display, which is an Acer S277HK 4K monitor.

To post an image here, I took a screen grab, but it actually captured the entire screen and dock without any clipping. So I had to manually create the attached example to show what I'm seeing. It's certainly not a deal-breaker, but it is annoying!

I've checked all of the settings on the monitor's OSD, but there wasn't a setting for height/width/positioning, as you might find back the cathode ray monitor days.
May I ask if you managed to get your mainboard working fine with MacOS. Am looking into an update using that same mini its mainboard but can't find any threads yet on the net. Is everything working or did you experience something that did not?
 
were you able to resolve this issue? I have the same problem.
 
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