So, I came home from work a few days ago, and my monitor wouldn’t come up. The light was green, so it was getting a signal from my computer, but nothing came on the screen.

Weird.

I unplugged the monitor, and plugged it back in… nothing.

I logged onto the computer from my other box, and was able to do so, so I knew the computer was working. I rebooted the computer remotely, and heard it shutdown and reboot. But no screen when it came up.

Sigh….

I hadn’t really had time to try reseating my video card, or moving my good monitor over to my linux box. I used Sarah’s working windows box in frustration. grrr.

Tonight, Sarah was hovering over me at her computer, trying to find a way to reclaim that which is rightfully hers. She asked if I looked for less obvious things that the kids could have been playing with. Right… they threw something at my box and broke my video card. Figures.

So, we start messing with the buttons on the monitor… and found out that the brighness was turned all the way down.