Sorry to be a pain. None of the previous great suggestions haven't worked.
I know the CPU is connected to the monitor since If I boot to bios, the bios comes up on both of my monitors (BTW, the intel dual monitor mode is enabled in the bios).
despite trying to re-install the driver as outlined above, and rebooting several times, I cannot get the second monitor to come up.
also, I've reloaded both display drivers and have checked for updates.
please help!
jeff