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This happened before and a restart fixed the problem, but not anymore.  Out of nowhere, I startup and I'm getting a message on the screen of my Samsung 2033SW that the resolution should be 1600 x 900 60mhz.  This is a message from the monitor, not a Mac system message.  But there is no setting for 1600x900 on the system prefs.  I tried restarting, and so on, but nothing...  In previous occurrences, somehow some way, I started to see the proper settings and then I just selected them in system prefs.  But no longer.  I'm stuck on 1024 x 768, the closest to the proportional resolution I'm after.  I don't know of any way to force the proper resolution.  Are there some .plist files I can delete?  There are other issues with this machine which is old and I'm working around for now. 

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