Video Display Problem - Please Help.

[pbl]

Hi - I just started getting this weird video problem when playing movies.
The movies are extremely dark (blue/black) and I cannot see any detail
except for the brightest of whites. It happens when playing DVD movies with
PowerDVD, wmv and avi DivX files with Windows Media Player, dvr-ms files
with the Media Centre, and FLV files played with the Vuze flv player.
However, I can play mpg video files using Apple Quicktime without a problem,
which makes me think I have a codec problem rather than a hardware problem.

Recently I installed a few applications but uninstalled them when I noticed
the problem. This didn't help. I also ran Dell Diagnostics at start-up and
all seems well. I'm running Vista Ultimate SP1 on a new Dell M1530 T9500
notebook with 4GM RAM and 256 MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics.

Any help appreciated.

 

[pbl]

Reinstalled DivX codec, thinking that was the problem, but it wasn't. Help
please...

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Hi - I just started getting this weird video problem when playing movies.
The movies are extremely dark (blue/black) and I cannot see any detail
except for the brightest of whites. It happens when playing DVD movies
with
PowerDVD, wmv and avi DivX files with Windows Media Player, dvr-ms files
with the Media Centre, and FLV files played with the Vuze flv player.
However, I can play mpg video files using Apple Quicktime without a
problem,
which makes me think I have a codec problem rather than a hardware
problem.

Recently I installed a few applications but uninstalled them when I
noticed
the problem. This didn't help. I also ran Dell Diagnostics at start-up
and
all seems well. I'm running Vista Ultimate SP1 on a new Dell M1530 T9500
notebook with 4GM RAM and 256 MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics.

Well, I would do a Restore back to a point before you started doing
anything, to a point when things were working correctly.

 

[pbl]

Duh! Problem sorted. Somehow or another brightness had been set to zero in
the NVIDIA control panel. Now to reinstall those apps I'd uninstalled!