Screen dark, cursor not?!?!

[TeeDge]

Hello,

I'm running an HP m8400f (Vista) upgraded to a NVIDIA 9800gtx graphics card. My screen is a 23" widescreen HP w2338h.

The brightness on my monitor has seemingly dimmed. I don't believe this to be a monitor problem however, as my cursor is still a very bright white and the HP monitor status box that pops up when I restart the monitor is also uneffected. Everything else has tinted a bit. IE: When running Microsoft word, or opening Yahoo, Wikipedia, or Google, things that should be white appear grey -- yet oddly, the cursor is unchanged and still very bright white.

I'm dualboxing and there has always been a slight difference between the two monitors (on seperate computers); however, now its vastly different and hard on the eyes.

Any ideas anyone?

[Karnac]

Check the obvious first, connections on bad monitor, monitor cable, swap for a known good one, also make sure you didn't touch the contrast or brightness by accident.........then swap the monitor to eliminate that.

[TeeDge]

Much to my surprise (mainly because the cursor and the monitor status window were bright). I think it may be the graphics card.

Bad monitor to opposite computer -- picture showing up fine.
Bad monitor to opposite computer with DIFFERENT cord -- picture showing up fine.

So monitor is not bad...
Cable is not bad...

That leaves graphics card...

Any advice besides reinstall drivers?

[Karnac]

Reseat the card.

[TeeDge]

It worked; thanks for taking time out of your day to help me!

[Karnac]

Super...Way to go.