Colour changes!

OK, im running windows XP, and up till about a week ago, my video picture has been perfect, but now, when i watch videos, the colours in the videos invert. blue becomes red and so on. has anyou come accross this before. Im just waiting on a new motherboard (ASUS P5N32 Premium....join the queue) to make up a new PC to replace this one, but its damn well annoying. Ive got an AGP nVidea 6600 GTX...i think (just goes to show how intrested i am) and ie tried fidling with my nvidea setting but i cant find a problem. picures and videos on disk seem to play alright...only thing ive changed recently is the uninstalling of windoes vista transformation pack V5.5, but that was after the colour changes.......any ideas?

EDIT....whmmm if i scrolled down a bit further i might have noticed the hexus HELP! section...my bad:P

Exactly which software (player, DShow filters, etc) are you using the play the files? What format are they in? What video card do you have? You say "videos on disk seem to play alright", what does that mean?

Any player plays the colour "wonky" (AVI files)......i dont have a video card (unless you count the graphics card which is an nVidea GeForce 6600 GT (AGP)) Videos on disc, for example i recorded Dr. Who of the TV, then i created my own DVD Video using nero...these seem to play fine, also official DVD,s seem to play fine. I use winamp, Power DVD and DivX, and they all change the colours to different shades of blue.

EDIT: I've had a thought, i think this could be due to my graphics card....for quite some time ive been recieving these nVidea power warnings....but about the time that the colour changed, i stopped recieving them...ive got a 450W power supply on this rig with an OLD gigabyte 875P chipset intel P4 dual core. Im not too worried at the mo, but i will be major pissed if its the case that something has changed the coding in ALL my video files (paranoid thinking). Any thoughts?

EDIT 2: DVD,s played in Power Cinema play fine, but after a moment the top and bottome menu bars start flashing (hyroclifcy type stuff), and if i go into the dvd, and play a single video file, the picture once again turns to shades off blue.

Have you checked the lead from your video card to the monitor? If the connections aren't secure at either end you can lose one of the colour channels and it will appear just as you describe.

Otherwise are we just talking about DVD video here? There are lots of things that can possibly go wrong with video on a PC, so you have to be very specific about what the errors are.

DVD's played from an optical disk play fine, but you get problems playing .VOB files on your hard disk?

What version of the nvidia drivers do you have, and have you tried upgrading to the latest ones?

Have you been playing around with video codecs? Dodgy codecs can do that. I'm not entirely sure how to check which ones you're using though or how to fix it if that is the problem. If anyone does know i'd be interested in knowing too :D

I tend to not play around with anything at all...so im quite baffled to how it's like it is. But im hopeing my new mobo will arrive in the next week, so im sure a good format will rectify the problem...plus ive got a 7950 GX2 card to replace the old! but thanx for your help anyway!

Well it's hard to work out what your problem is if you won't give any real details.

:S well ive just updated to the latest nVidea Drivers...and its still the same, so im rulling that out. If everything else is fine and unaffected (picture wise) im pretty sure i can rule out graphics card. sounds likly its a rogue codec somewere maybe....but which one i wouldnt know :S Not that much of an expert on pretty much most computer asspects...how on earth i built the damn thing i have no idea!

if you have the latest Nvidia drivers installed, in the Video/Tv/Adjust video colour settings section, click the restore defaults and apply, see if that works.

Curly

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it looks like after a SECOND successfull restart, the picture is normal again....must have been the drivers gone all confuddled.