Hello all - Until yesterday, my Parallels (guest OS: XP) was working perfectly - I have a Dell 23" external monitor (resolution 2048x1152) happily coexisting with my Macbook Pro (OS: Snow Leopard), which acted as a second display for Windows (resolution: 1920x1200) in full screen mode (it's the only way I run it). Occasionally, when I am not in my office, I will run Parallels full screen just on the Mac (single display), and that has been fine. I was doing the same last night, and at some point, I put the computer to sleep (closed the lid). When I woke the machine up, Parallels could no longer handle the two displays. If I run Parallels and manually tell it NOT to extend the display to a second screen, full screen mode works fine. But, if I let it extend (which is default), the external monitor (which is the primary display) is stuck at 640x480 resolution with 4 colors, and the Mac screen, while claiming to be running at 1920x1200 in Windows, is odd also - I cannot click on anything there, and there is a weird shadowing of the mouse. I see two cursors simultaneously (about an inch apart) and only one of them works, but the other causes focus issues, so it's really really annoying. I have reinstalled Parallels tools, re-run the Parallels 5 installer, rebooted, tried to update the display driver (no newer versions available), turned off all sorts of flags and am not completely dumbfounded. The second display works perfectly fine for the Mac OS, so it appears to be something related to the display drivers in Parallels. Unfortunately, that's all I can come up with at this point without running the risk of screwing something up that puts my Windows installation at risk (this is a critical work machine - it's backed up, but if I can avoid it, I don't want to toast it, at least not this week!). Anyone out there have any brilliant ideas? This is super time sensitive, so I appreciate any suggestions, thoughts, or even feedback from the Parallels gurus themselves! Thanks very much in advance. Best, -- Venk --
