G
Guy
Hi,
first, a rant. Could the number of discussion groups (>1500!) be reduced to
something less daunting for the casual non-techy user? I was overwhelmed by
the number of groups and really don't know if I'm posting in the correct one.
Rant over.
OK here's my problem. I have a 2yo Advent 9150 laptop wth Vista HP. Last
week everything was fine. This week, on boot-up, I started getting msg
"error in Windows Defender UI" which turned out to be the tip of an iceberg,
and to cut a long (and probably irrlevant) discussion short, I ran a clean
recovery back to factory condition from restore DVD.
This seemed to work ok, in that all the issues went away. BUT.... I now
have a problem whereby after c.10 minutes, the display seems to go into sleep
mode even if I'm in the middle of doing something, like typing or
mouse-clicking. At this point, I would expect to be able to restore the
screen by a mouse click etc... but it doesn't respond. I therefore have no
alternative but to power down and reboot every time this happens.
I've checked my power settings and I'm using Vista defaults - with power,
the screen isn't supposed to go to sleep until after 60 minutes. All the
device drivers are up to date. When I reboot, the display comes up as
normal for about 10 minutes, then dies again.
first, a rant. Could the number of discussion groups (>1500!) be reduced to
something less daunting for the casual non-techy user? I was overwhelmed by
the number of groups and really don't know if I'm posting in the correct one.
Rant over.
OK here's my problem. I have a 2yo Advent 9150 laptop wth Vista HP. Last
week everything was fine. This week, on boot-up, I started getting msg
"error in Windows Defender UI" which turned out to be the tip of an iceberg,
and to cut a long (and probably irrlevant) discussion short, I ran a clean
recovery back to factory condition from restore DVD.
This seemed to work ok, in that all the issues went away. BUT.... I now
have a problem whereby after c.10 minutes, the display seems to go into sleep
mode even if I'm in the middle of doing something, like typing or
mouse-clicking. At this point, I would expect to be able to restore the
screen by a mouse click etc... but it doesn't respond. I therefore have no
alternative but to power down and reboot every time this happens.
I've checked my power settings and I'm using Vista defaults - with power,
the screen isn't supposed to go to sleep until after 60 minutes. All the
device drivers are up to date. When I reboot, the display comes up as
normal for about 10 minutes, then dies again.