I recently re-installed XP SR3 on my home-built box and now whenever I
attempt to run any of my games, I get a black screen on my monitor. I
know the games are running since the audio comes in fine and the
keyboard/mouse responses can be heard through the audio.
Additionally, if I use my old CRT monitor, there is no issue but my
Viewsonic flat-panel displays the black.

My first guess was that it was video crad driver related so I updated
nvidia drivers, then I went to the Viewsonic site and used their
specific driver. No luck - I even tried rolling back to pre-SR-3
update and that doesn't resolve it.

Anything I am missing ? Any help would be welcome ?

-Gerry

Configuration below:
Computer:
Operating System Microsoft
Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 3
DirectX 4.09.00.0904
(DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name SILVERBOX
User Name Gerry

Motherboard:
CPU Type 2x , 2400 MHz
(7 x 343)
Motherboard Name Unknown
Motherboard Chipset Unknown
System Memory 2048 MB
BIOS Type Award
(08/09/07)
Communication Port Printer Port
(LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce
8800 GTS (640 MB)
Monitor Plug and Play
Monitor [NoDB] (PXU061431144)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative SB X-
Fi [NoDB]

Storage:
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce
430/410 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce
430/410 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller Standard Dual
Channel PCI IDE Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk
drive
Disk Drive Iomega
External HD USB Device (931 GB, USB)
Disk Drive WDC
WD4000AAKS-00TMA0 (372 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive WDC
WD4000AAKS-00TMA0 (372 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive Optiarc DVD RW
AD-7170A
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 381543 MB
(248234 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 381551 MB
(381453 MB free)
H: (NTFS) 953875 MB
(791191 MB free)
Total Size 1676.7 GB
(1387.6 GB free)

Input:
Keyboard HID Keyboard
Device
Mouse Microsoft USB
Wheel Mouse Optical

Network:
Network Adapter Gigabyte GN-
WP01GS PCI WLAN Card(Turbo) (192.168.1.5)
Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce
Networking Controller (192.168.1.4)