External display stopped working correctly

After one month of using external Acer 23 monitor via DVI cable from my MBP I started to get this weird screen:
http://www.ewadev.com/public/IMAG0022.jpg
Monitor and cable works well - checked on another PC (VGA and DVI)
It seems something with my MBP
anyone can help please?

I have the same problem occasinally with my acer v223w screen. The only solution I have found is to put the macbook back to sleep or to unplug/plug in the monitor connection from the macbook.
Have you also noticed that sometimes the colors will get washed out on both the acer and the macbook display when the acer is attached? If I don't get the screen you posted in your photo I get washed out colors on both. The (annoying) fix for that seems to be to open display preferences and click on the color tab. Simply opening this tab on each display returns the screens to their color profile. Can't seem to find a fix to that one and it seems to have gotten more frequent in 10.6 while the situation you described and photographed seems to have disappeared.

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