Ok, after trying everything I could think of with the tv I originally had in the cabinet, I took the plunge and grabbed another one off of craigslist for cheap. Its a Sony Trinitron 27", has power return, and remembers the input that it was on. Score! I must say I love the picture and the colors look great! Still get a garbled Boot image and POST, but Windows desktop looks fine. Seems like 640x480 is the max rez that this can use, unless I still have things setup improperly. Thanks again calamity. I'm going to uninstall the latest drives that I tried and go back to your 9.3 version paired with groovymame.
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