Help!  My ViewSonic monitor doesn't want to work w/ my Early 2009 Mini!

Have an 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4gb RAM, Early 2009 Mini (macmini3,1), 10.6.8 Snow Leapord with a ViewSonic VA1703wb monitor. 
My problem started a few weeks ago.  All of a sudden I discovered that if I turned my ViewSonic VA1703wb monitor on before the Mini, the power button was green, but the screen was black.    Turning the Mini on then the monitor seemed to get it to work.  Now for the last few days, the monitor either would show the Apple logo and then go black or just have the power light blink green and sometimes yellow with the screen slightly flashing, but was black (with the Apple logo screen not even coming up).  I have the two different adapters to use to plug in  VGA.   I've been using the Mini-DVI port adapter since I got the Mini a few years ago (on eBay which came w/ the orignial box, discs, manuals etc.) w/ no problems.
Tried the Mini Display port adapter that I had in storage and it did the same thing! Then I remembered that there was another adapter in the Mini's box.  Happen to have a Apple Studio Diplay and would you believe the adapter (Mini-DVI to DVI)  in the box fit on the end of the Display's cable!!  I couldn't believe my luck!  And, the Mini works with it!  At least I got it to work!   The "About This Mac" says the following for the display:  NVIDIA GeForce 9400, 256MB RAM, Display Connector Status: No display connected.  (How can it say that "no display is connected, when the Studio Display is???  I'm typing this using the Studio Display!)    I also have an MDD and hooked the ViewSonic up to it and it works!
When I did get the ViewSonic to work with the Mini, I noticed that my desktop photo wasn't showing, just the Snow Leopard purple space one.  I put my photo back on the ViewSonic.  When I got the Apple Studio Display working, it at first didn't have my photo showing, just the purple one.  And it didn't have any icons etc.  Had to power shut off the Mini and then start it up again and then everything was showing up fine.
The other day I read that the adapter has a firmware update from Apple and that maybe the problem.  Can't understand why an adapter has firmware.  Also I've read that the PRAM (called something else w/ Intel) may need reseting or that the HD could be going downhill!  I was also wondering if the video card was messing up.  I hope and pray the problem is only software, as I'm not going to take the case apart and have something break in the process.  I've replaced hard drives, RAM, PRAM batteries and a card in PowerMacs with not much difficulty.  If my Mini was the newer design where you can take the bottom off, then that would be fine...  Since the Mini works with the Studio Display, I wouldn't think it was the video card, but with computers anything is possible.  I will be sick if it's the hard drive!    99% of my documents and photos are stored on a USB drive (as to not fill up the 120GB HD).
Sure hope someone can assist me with this nerve-wracking problem.  Thank goodness I have the MDD as a back-up, but its RAM is maxed out to 2GB and it seems slow on the Internet and when I edit photos.
Thanks very much.
silverado93 

Well, VGA & DVI use different ins on the adapter, so it is likely some HW issue.
The purple space issue sounds like the Mini thought it was a second extended display.

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