John, Gary:

The news is something worked and the monitor now has 1024x768.

For others:

John - I removed the Default monitor from Device Manager. The desktop is plug 'n play.
I "restarted" the lappy and I heard all of the pretty OS tunes, and then nothing but black.
So I sat and waited and waited, got impatient then

as Gary suggested I did Fn F5 and held it for about 5 sec solid, and nothing . . .
then pop and up came 1024x768!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow

I'll see if this is permanent once I try to re-boot . . . which won't be until midnight tonight.
No way I'm wasting this resolution.

John, Gary - muchos gracias - I've been trying to solve this problem since Christmas.
As they say in local French . . . mercy buckets!!!

Ian

Ian
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