-->> Black Screen during game boot-up

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)