Monitor only going to sleep intermittently

[Guest Wayne]

For some time now my monitor on my window XP, with SP2, will not always go

into sleep mode. Sometime it will go to sleep, and at other times it will

not. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? I checked for other

similar situations on this forum but I could not find anything that described

my particular situation. I have not made any changes to the power options. I

have it set for the monitor to go to sleep after 30 minutes. Any help

appreicated. Thanks.

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Wayne

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Monitor only going to sleep intermittently

 

Mostly due to something operating in the background. Open Task Manager

and look at the processes runnin shortly after bootup, make a note of

what is there. THEN when the system should have gone to sleep but hasn't

compare the list in Task manager again. One of the "new" ones will

likely be the problem.

 

Wayne wrote:

> For some time now my monitor on my window XP, with SP2, will not always go

> into sleep mode. Sometime it will go to sleep, and at other times it will

> not. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? I checked for other

> similar situations on this forum but I could not find anything that described

> my particular situation. I have not made any changes to the power options. I

> have it set for the monitor to go to sleep after 30 minutes. Any help

> appreicated. Thanks.

[Guest Wayne]

Re: Monitor only going to sleep intermittently

 

Bob, thanks for your reply. I have checked the task manager in the past and

the only thing I see running there is my MSN mail-inbox-MSN Explorer and

Microsoft IE. I have always kept the two programs running and it never

interfered with my monitor going to sleep before. This started just a few

months back. I thought it may have been a Microsoft update or something thats

caused it. I have not made any changes to this computer for a long, long time

so it is not anything that I have done. Since it only happnens

intermiittently, it is hard to diagnose. I was hoping that it would be

something simple to figure out, but I guess there is not anything simple when

we deal with computers. Thanks again Bob.

--

Wayne

 

 

"Bob I" wrote:

> Mostly due to something operating in the background. Open Task Manager

> and look at the processes runnin shortly after bootup, make a note of

> what is there. THEN when the system should have gone to sleep but hasn't

> compare the list in Task manager again. One of the "new" ones will

> likely be the problem.

>

> Wayne wrote:

>

> > For some time now my monitor on my window XP, with SP2, will not always go

> > into sleep mode. Sometime it will go to sleep, and at other times it will

> > not. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? I checked for other

> > similar situations on this forum but I could not find anything that described

> > my particular situation. I have not made any changes to the power options. I

> > have it set for the monitor to go to sleep after 30 minutes. Any help

> > appreicated. Thanks.

>

>

[Guest Wayne]

Re: Monitor only going to sleep intermittently

 

Bob, I am sorry, I missed the processes you mentioned in your post. I only

looked at the applications tab to see what was running. I will do what you

suggest. I have not counted them yet, but I would guess there must be nearly

30 items running under the processes tab. I will do as you suggested though.

Thanks.

--

Wayne

 

 

"Bob I" wrote:

> Mostly due to something operating in the background. Open Task Manager

> and look at the processes runnin shortly after bootup, make a note of

> what is there. THEN when the system should have gone to sleep but hasn't

> compare the list in Task manager again. One of the "new" ones will

> likely be the problem.

>

> Wayne wrote:

>

> > For some time now my monitor on my window XP, with SP2, will not always go

> > into sleep mode. Sometime it will go to sleep, and at other times it will

> > not. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? I checked for other

> > similar situations on this forum but I could not find anything that described

> > my particular situation. I have not made any changes to the power options. I

> > have it set for the monitor to go to sleep after 30 minutes. Any help

> > appreicated. Thanks.

>

>

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Monitor only going to sleep intermittently

 

Check the Processes tab. There has to be something running at a high

enough level to keep Windows from being "idle" which is what is keeping

it from napping for you. And "simple", nope, not with all the stuff that

gets loaded on a PC today, I think "simple" went by the wayside when

"multitasking" was introduced.

 

Wayne wrote:

> Bob, thanks for your reply. I have checked the task manager in the past and

> the only thing I see running there is my MSN mail-inbox-MSN Explorer and

> Microsoft IE. I have always kept the two programs running and it never

> interfered with my monitor going to sleep before. This started just a few

> months back. I thought it may have been a Microsoft update or something thats

> caused it. I have not made any changes to this computer for a long, long time

> so it is not anything that I have done. Since it only happnens

> intermiittently, it is hard to diagnose. I was hoping that it would be

> something simple to figure out, but I guess there is not anything simple when

> we deal with computers. Thanks again Bob.

[Guest V Green]

Re: Monitor only going to sleep intermittently

 

This has been broken clear back to Windows 2000.

 

I tried for months to fix it. Multiple different computers.

Anything anyone does to fix it is only temporary and it

will eventually stop working again.

 

I fixed it once and for all with a MANUAL poweroff

app:

 

http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

 

put a shortcut to a batch file to it on the dsektop,

click-click, monitor is off. No more BS.

 

"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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> Mostly due to something operating in the background. Open Task Manager

> and look at the processes runnin shortly after bootup, make a note of

> what is there. THEN when the system should have gone to sleep but hasn't

> compare the list in Task manager again. One of the "new" ones will

> likely be the problem.

>

> Wayne wrote:

>

> > For some time now my monitor on my window XP, with SP2, will not always go

> > into sleep mode. Sometime it will go to sleep, and at other times it will

> > not. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? I checked for other

> > similar situations on this forum but I could not find anything that

described

> > my particular situation. I have not made any changes to the power options. I

> > have it set for the monitor to go to sleep after 30 minutes. Any help

> > appreicated. Thanks.

>