Goodish news so far - trawling through the internet for solutions to the hot key problem and found we had to re-install some drivers as the previous owner had tried to upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Professional - this apparently is notorious for destroying hotkey functions. Further trawling when this didn't work and we discovered that unless you install Sony shared library, Sony Notebook Setup Hotkey Utility the drivers didn't work (found that on an obscure little forum and it worked a treat). There are no programmes loaded but the media player and games and speakers etc are just fine and now so is the keyboard.
Which brings us back to the screen scene :o)
The suggestion by PM to toggle the monitor setting hasn't worked so far - before we buy another screen for this we will open things up and tighten cables and make sure stuff is all plugged in firmly and give it a clean/hoover. If that still doesn't work then we will try to find a screen that is still working from a machine that is unsalvageable.
So, that's the plan and any more suggestions would be welcome still :o)
This machine is still brilliant but for the screen and I reckon it's worth at least a try.
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