Mac Mini with an LG Flatron Monitor

I recently bought a Mac Mini and hooked it up to an LG Flatron W2240T using a VGA cord. Everything works fine and the monitor display is great...BUT, when my computer goes to sleep and then I wake it back up, everything is "zoomed in" and pixelated. I tried messing with Displays in System Preferences, but cannot get it to work. The "Scaled 1920x1080" setting looks fine, but everything is pushed to the right and a quarter of the screen is cutoff. So I always end up setting it back to "Best for display" and just restarting the computer, which fixes the problem...but slows me down.
Any help would be much appreciated!!!

I have the same problem, my Mac Mini is connected to a pretty old LG Flatron monitor (L177WSB) through a mini display port to VGA adapter, when the mini goes to sleep the resolution gets messed up and I have to restart it.
I haven't found any solutions to this problem yet. For now I just disallow the mini from going to sleep.

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