XP goes to sleep

[Guest]

Although I have disabled every power saver, hibernate control and screen saver I can find, I still have problem. Symptoms are that desktop running XP works normally until I leave it alone fo about 5-10 mins. Then only thing that works is mouse pointer. CTL-ALT-DEL has no effect, power off button not working; screen shows last screen; ALT-f4 no effect; disk still spinning and on board card reader still being polled. Only way out is to hit reset and then all OK until I leave iy alone again
I have made no hardware changes, have installed all Microsoft updates and in desparation have even reloaded from recovery disk
Any ideas??

 

[DL]

Try safe mode to see if the problem replicates. if it doesnt stop/close the
auto start apps including those shown in task bar. Add them in, one at a
time to locate problem one.

Although I have disabled every power saver, hibernate control and screen

saver I can find, I still have problem. Symptoms are that desktop running XP
works normally until I leave it alone fo about 5-10 mins. Then only thing
that works is mouse pointer. CTL-ALT-DEL has no effect, power off button not
working; screen shows last screen; ALT-f4 no effect; disk still spinning and
on board card reader still being polled. Only way out is to hit reset and
then all OK until I leave iy alone again.

I have made no hardware changes, have installed all Microsoft updates and

in desparation have even reloaded from recovery disk.