Shouldn't be - it's a brand new monitor. The monitor's resolution is 1280 x 800, and it can do 60, 70 & 75 Hz. The laptop's resolution is only 1280 x 768.

It just doesn't make any sense, it's driving me insane. The Windows troubleshooter doesn't help because it assumes that you have 2 display adapters installed separately, and this machine only has one. Supposedly, the single card can handle 2 outputs - it's an Nvidia Geforce Go 6200.

Peter can connect his Vaio to a monitor directly without any faffing at all, but his is the smaller model and has a different graphics card.