lysie, it was not my video card after all. It was the monitor. I turned my suspicion from the video card to the monitor after noticing that cycling the monitor's power button resulted in the display coming back on and then failing off again. I sensed that the computer had nothing to do with it. Sure enough, when I swapped monitors with one of my other computers, the diagnosis was conclusive; bad monitor. It must have failed on my birthday for a reason. My birthday present to myself (1 day belated) will be a new monitor later today.
Good Morning 2/3s, you’re up early for a fellow on vacation.
Enjoy your new monitor! Make it a goodie! ;-)
Good hunting to find the real problem. @:) HOB