Good news to report. Thanks for the tip on the Display Changer II. I changed the configuration to now use the BG by default and then switch to the playfield when starting Pinballx and then back to the BG when exiting. That only didn't fix the issue of the DMD not displaying correctly on first maching power-on but I did notice that the DMD was behind the playfield. I changed the setting in PinballX to be on Display #2 which is the orginal number when the maching detects the display and it now works from a cold boot. Success! Brad let me know if you want my .ini file etc if it will help with default setups. Machine is awesome!