Display Won't Go To Sleep

[Guest pestocat]

I have a laptop Dell 600M with WinXP and with all updates. I have set the

Power save to turn off display after 15 minutes and goto a screen saver

after 2 minutes. The problem is the display won't go to sleep. I have tried

several things. I reinstalled the wireless card drivers and the screen saver

worked once and only once. I uninstalled SP3 and again the screen saver

worked once. Then not again. Do I need to reinstall Windows? Or any other

ideas?

[Guest bobster]

Re: Display Won't Go To Sleep

 

Don't know if this will help but I had a similar problem -- erratic standby

and hibernate performance.

 

I keep my email client on at all times so I can get quick notification of

new mail. I finally found the problem to be a setting in my Outlook Express

to "check for new messages every 15 minutes". In power options, the

"standby" was set for 5 minutes and the "hibernate" for 30 minutes so there

was an interaction that caused the erratic performance. Solution was to

change the OE setting to 60 minutes.

 

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"pestocat" <gel114@theconnection.com> wrote in message

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I have a laptop Dell 600M with WinXP and with all updates. I have set the

Power save to turn off display after 15 minutes and goto a screen saver

after 2 minutes. The problem is the display won't go to sleep. I have tried

several things. I reinstalled the wireless card drivers and the screen saver

worked once and only once. I uninstalled SP3 and again the screen saver

worked once. Then not again. Do I need to reinstall Windows? Or any other

ideas?

[Guest Onsokumaru]

Re: Display Won't Go To Sleep

 

 

"pestocat" <gel114@theconnection.com> wrote in message

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>I have a laptop Dell 600M with WinXP and with all updates. I have set the

>Power save to turn off display after 15 minutes and goto a screen saver

>after 2 minutes. The problem is the display won't go to sleep. I have tried

>several things. I reinstalled the wireless card drivers and the screen

>saver worked once and only once. I uninstalled SP3 and again the screen

>saver worked once. Then not again. Do I need to reinstall Windows? Or any

>other ideas?

>

>

>

 

Sorry, what makes you think it was related to your wireless nic?

 

Do the sleep settings for the monitor changed back to "never"?

 

Some programs turn off the monitor sleeps function without restoring the

settings.

 

Usually things like media players or tv tuning software suspends sleep mode,

but normally they re-instate it when the program is closed, unless there is

an abnormal program, termination.

 

Try investigating these things.

 

You don't say whether it worked normally before or ever.

[Guest pestocat]

Re: Display Won't Go To Sleep

 

 

"Onsokumaru" <onsok-sama@ninja.village.jp> wrote in message

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>

> "pestocat" <gel114@theconnection.com> wrote in message

> news:%23NomOWxAJHA.5596@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>>I have a laptop Dell 600M with WinXP and with all updates. I have set the

>>Power save to turn off display after 15 minutes and goto a screen saver

>>after 2 minutes. The problem is the display won't go to sleep. I have

>>tried several things. I reinstalled the wireless card drivers and the

>>screen saver worked once and only once. I uninstalled SP3 and again the

>>screen saver worked once. Then not again. Do I need to reinstall Windows?

>>Or any other ideas?

>>

>>

>>

>

> Sorry, what makes you think it was related to your wireless nic?

>

> Do the sleep settings for the monitor changed back to "never"?

>

> Some programs turn off the monitor sleeps function without restoring the

> settings.

>

> Usually things like media players or tv tuning software suspends sleep

> mode, but normally they re-instate it when the program is closed, unless

> there is an abnormal program, termination.

>

> Try investigating these things.

>

> You don't say whether it worked normally before or ever.

>

 

In searching this subject, there are references to out of date drivers of

the wireless card. I can't get this to sleep even with no applications

running.