Lost second monitor

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I'm experiencing something very similar. I ran SD on my MacBook Pro for the first time last night since upgrading to Leopard, and set the preferences to shut down the system when finished. I also had my external monitor plugged in and both displays where on when SD was running and I went to bed.

This morning I woke up and everything was shut down, so I unplugged the external monitor and the FW drive and turned on the laptop to quickly check my email before work.

The laptop display came on for a second and then went black. I waited a long time to see if it would eventually come on, but nothing happened. It looked to me like the machine had not booted up, but as I leaned in to power it up again I noticed the HD was spinning.

So I plugged-in the external monitor, and my desktop appear on it. I went to display preferences and everything appeared fine, but I could not get the laptop display to come on.

I shut down and unplugged everything again, but when I powered up the display went black again and I could not get it to come on.

Could this be a coincidence? The timing seems very strange.

Thanks,

Andrew