Haha, I'm happy to agree to disagree here. In my book doing hex editing on a binary file and overriding what my system thinks the monitor is reporting to ultima

Haha, I'm happy to agree to disagree here. In my book doing hex editing on a binary file and overriding what my system thinks the monitor is reporting to ultimately solve the problem feels enough like a hack (http://catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html). As someone else noted, I'm considering overwriting the EEPROM in the monitor but I'd like to be 100% certain that's correct before I try it (one of the reasons I posted to HN was to see if folks thought I was going down the wrong path). I'm actually going to try a completely new cable first in case it's a bandwidth issue.