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I am running Windows Vista Business 32 bit via bootcamp on Leopard 10.5.1 on a Mac Pro with 3Gb RAM and with the two systems installed on separate 250Mb hard drives. My GPU is an ATI 1900 512Mb card
Up until now I have used an LG 1920P 19" LCD monitor with this setup, which has been recognised perfectly well by both Leopard and Vista.
I purchased a Formac Gallery 1900 19" LCD in the January sales and now have that connected as main monitor. This works fine with Leopard however Vista has issues. Starting up with the alt key option, I get the MacOS/Windows disk choices come up as usual and select 'Windows' to get Vista, but then the screen goes black and into 'sleep' mode (pulsing front light). After a little time and some disk activity, the computer reboots itself into Leopard. Next time I do start Windows successfully it reports an unsuccessful startup last time.
I tried booting into Vista with the old LG monitor then hot-swapping DVI cables with the Formac, and the Formac is then driven perfectly well in Vista as a plug and play monitor (same as for the LG)
However if I connect both monitors, I can boot into Vista on the new Formac monitor (even if the LG is actually unplugged from the power socket but just connected to the DVI).
I'm very puzzled by this, quite enjoying dual monitors, but I'd still like to be able to boot to Vista using just the single Formac monitor alone. As it seems to be a 'boot-time' problem I suspect the problem may lie with Bootcamp. I tried installing the ATI Catalyst Control Centre in Vista and configuring displays there but it did not help.
Does anyone have any advice please ?

Bad cable? using same port on the X1900?
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