Windows colours went black

[beatme101]

Using Windows 2000 Professional. I just exited out of Starcraft and it
made alot of my colours in Windows go black. It is difficult to click
on anything, buttons are completely impossible to identify, I have to
guess. Taskbar, systray, start menu are black, but icons still show. A
few toolbars are black, the close/maximize/minimize buttons are black.
Here's a shot I took with my webcam, I have a feeling a screenshot
wouldn't work because it might just be in the video card itself.. I
have tried changing to and from 256 colour mode, it didn't work.

http://beatme101.com/images/ss/Starcraft made everything black.jpg


Eager for a solution, I have a "Winzip Self-Extractor" window up with
five buttons to click on, and only one will do what I want. I really
wish people would use Simplyzip instead of Winzip, but that's a
different story. Now, to view the source of this web page to see which
button I have to click on to submit this...

 

[Bob I]

Try booting up in safe mode an see if it works.

 

[beatme101]

Oh poo, I was hoping for a way to do this without having to restart. I
don't want to interrupt my precious web server..

Bob I wote:

 

[Bob I]

Exited out of Startcraft?!?!? Don't want to reboot the web server?!?!?
I'm confused!

 

[beatme101]

I have a web server on my computer, since I only have one computer of
my own (can't afford more computers, and I live with my mom and the
power circuit for my room won't provide enough power for another
computer) I also use it for, well, everything else too.

Bob I wote:

 

[Bob I]

Ah, well then check what you can, but if it is dying hardware the system
will have to come down if you are to repair.

 

[beatme101]

Argh. I just adjusted the appearance settings to a new "Scheme",
erasing all of my settings. It crashed explorer, and stopped any
windows from being brought to the front, so I had to restart my
computer. It seems all the colours are fine now, although reset to the
default "Windows Classic" that I chose when I crashed explorer. I
guess I know for the next time this happens, I should restart as fast
as I can before it crashes. Maybe I should just get Virtual PC for
playing Starcraft.

 

[Bob I]

Apparently the graphics adapter only needed a "hard reset". Well, at
least you don't have to replace it.

 

[phantom]

Thanks for trying to help though.
I've recently tried Starcraft in Virtual PC 2004, and it is amazingly
slow. I guess I expected too much from it, but it's still a pretty
neat program.. Especially since it's free.

Bob I wote:

 

[Bob I]

A few too many layers of programming to wade thru to get to the hardware
;-)