EX630 laptop - Nvidia 9300M GS - monitor flickers at 1920x1200

Recently, I bought an MSI-EX630 Laptop with NVIDIA SLI GeForce 9300M GS card from Newegg.
Never, ever, ever, buy a laptop that is from MSI or has NVIDIA inside that you cannot return, NEVER!
In short, my story is that when I hook up a secondary monitor it starts to flicker at resolutions of 1920x1200. This only happens when the laptop screen is active as well. This happens no matter if I have a HDMI-to-DVI cable or a simple VGA cable.
2) When I try to upgrade drivers, from official MSI site, everything goes blank (even when I'm on single-laptop-monitor configuration). Turns out, I have to go into Vista safe mode, to turn off the secondary video card, and use only the slow one, otherwise I get blank
screen with the mouse only...
3) with original drivers and configuration, single monitor, when I leave the laptop for 2-3 minutes, and then I try to move the mouse - I get a message saying to wait. I guess while the laptop was idle, the boost video card deactivated, and now to get active again I have to wait..
So, when I brought it to MSI Toronto for service, I got this response:
Hi,
The resolution of EX630 is 1366x768. It is the highest it got. If you connect it to an external monitor, you only got 1366x768. It won’t run under 1920x1200 resolution.
We have tested your notebook and the dvi cable. They are all ok. Your computer will be sent out to you soon.
Regards,
Harry with MSI(Canada)
(905)707-1880 ext 119
The good about MSI, is that you can go and talk in person with their service people. The bad, is that they cannot speak English and have very little idea about their products.
I told Harry, that there are two video cards in the laptop, and I suspect the secondary, faster card has issues.
Harry told me: "Who installed the second video card for you?"
Me: "This is NVIDIA SLI configuration, it comes with two cards, one built-in that is slower, and a secondary one, that boosts performance in games".
Harry then said that he has to ask his technician in Asia.. Harry later on told me that he has to bring the laptop to factory settings and whether I give permission to do that..
On the RMA sheet of paper that he asked me to sign, I specifically said that he can reformat the disk - no problem and that I've already used the MSI recovery disk to bring back everything as original..
But I guess better ask twice that sorry, can't blame them for that..
I asked to speak to a manager, but to no avail.. Harry suggested he'd ask his technician again..
I even put a youtube video to demonstrate to people the first problem that I have:
NVIDIA refuses to talk to me, because their product is in a laptop, so I have to talk to the laptop manufacturer..
So, I went to a store with 14-day return policy and bought another MSI - CR600, with 8200GS Nvidia card.
Needless to say, 1920x1200 works just fine with same cables and monitor. This MSI-CR600 laptop, at least I can return, and I'll do it.

I have a similar issue: external Samsung monitor worked fine on Vista, but I could not stand Vista. I put Win Xp Pro on... and I cannot get any signal out through the VGA port now. The monitor works fine (still), tested with two other latptops.
My suspicion is that the nVidia driver files, possibly the .INF, may need tweaking / replacement / etc.
Any assistance appreciated.

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