I work from home using VPN into work... I...

1) have a 21" NEC tube monitor at work on my "work" PC (set to 1280 x 1024)
2) I had a duplicate 21" NEC tube monitor at home on my "home" PC (also set to 1280 x 1024)
3) I used RADMIN to bing up my work PC on my Home pc... since the screens were exactly the same resolution, all was good.
4) my home pc's NEC 21" died.
5) I BOUGHT a Samsung 22" wide LCD.  Native resolution = 1680 x 1050
6) as we all know, LCD monitors only look pristine at their native resolution.
7) so I tried to set my work PC to 1680 x 1050 - no joy - because my work NEC won't do that.

Even tho my work PC has a card that's good enough to do this, it WON'T do it because it still sees the old NEC 21" monitor... not an LCD monitor.

So, how can I fool the work PC to format at 1680 x 1050 so I can RADMIN from home and not go blind with the little white ghosts that result from resolution mismatch. I don't even want to turn the work PC's monitor on.

I'm sure that if I had ANOTHER 22" LCD to take to work, it would do it just fine. But, I don't want to buy another one to replace a perfectly good NEC at work. In fact, I don't even NEED a monitor at work... but the PC won't output unless it "sees" one hooked up.  Does anybody know if there's a relatively inexpensive piece of Hwd that will fool the PC at work into OUTPUTTING 1680 x 1050? Or some other way to fool it?

THANKS for slugging thru this mess...

Steve Henderson