Sleep mode

[Terry]

I have watched my computer. After 10 min the screen will shut down,
but it powers right back up.


Suggestions on why the monitor will not power down? The same monitor
would power down on the same computer before I reinstalled XP fresh.


I am using network drives which I do not want to shut down. I just
want the monitor to go off.


Thanks

 

[BillW50]

I have watched my computer. After 10 min the screen will shut down,
but it powers right back up.

Suggestions on why the monitor will not power down? The same monitor
would power down on the same computer before I reinstalled XP fresh.

I am using network drives which I do not want to shut down. I just
want the monitor to go off.

Thanks

My Gateway MX6124 I got last August does the same thing. I set it to
turn off in 10 minutes and it turns back on in a minute for another 10
minutes. Then repeats. I know it happens with the external LCD monitor
and I think it does this too with the laptop build in display (I don't
use the laptop display very much).

I usually just turn off the external monitor, but maybe it is time to
fix this. Okay I went to the Device Manager and turn off power savings
(Power Management tab) for one of my networking cards (Marvell Yukon
88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller to be exact). That will probably
do it I think.

 

[BillW50]

My Gateway MX6124 I got last August does the same thing. I set it to
turn off in 10 minutes and it turns back on in a minute for another 10
minutes. Then repeats. I know it happens with the external LCD monitor
and I think it does this too with the laptop build in display (I don't
use the laptop display very much).

I usually just turn off the external monitor, but maybe it is time to
fix this. Okay I went to the Device Manager and turn off power savings
(Power Management tab) for one of my networking cards (Marvell Yukon
88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller to be exact). That will
probably do it I think.

Okay the turning off the power savings didn't do the trick. I set the
monitor to turn off in one minute and it did just that. But it awoke in
30 seconds, then again after 4 minutes, and then it stayed off much
longer. Then I unplugged the mouse and I think that was the thing
turning the monitor back on. I read one trick was to flip the mouse over
to prevent it from waking the system up.

 

[Terry]

My Gateway MX6124 I got last August does the same thing. I set it to
turn off in 10 minutes and it turns back on in a minute for another 10
minutes. Then repeats. I know it happens with the external LCD monitor
and I think it does this too with the laptop build in display (I don't
use the laptop display very much).

I usually just turn off the external monitor, but maybe it is time to
fix this. Okay I went to the Device Manager and turn off power savings
(Power Management tab) for one of my networking cards (Marvell Yukon
88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller to be exact). That will probably
do it I think.

I re-looked at my power settings. On the advanced page, there was an
option to prompt for a password after sleep mode.

I don't even log on with a password, so I unchecked it. It did go
into sleep mode for the first test.

That might have fixed it, although I don't know why.

Your message prompted me to check my settings more closely.

Thanks

 

[BillW50]

I re-looked at my power settings. On the advanced page, there was an
option to prompt for a password after sleep mode.

I don't even log on with a password, so I unchecked it. It did go
into sleep mode for the first test.

That might have fixed it, although I don't know why.

Your message prompted me to check my settings more closely.

Thanks

Great! Keep us updated as to your process.

 

[Guest]

Your Ethernet card may be bringing your system out of standby. To prevent
this, go to "Device Manager/Network adapters" and expand the node. Right
click on your Ethernet card and select "Properties". Click on the "Power
Management" tab. If "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby"
is checked, uncheck it and click "OK".