XP not turning off Monitor as directed?

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ABC

XP Pro on K7V old Mobo with K7. Said to be ACPI compliant, 512M Ram

It runs XP very well, but I notice that the monitor does not enter
screensaver mode nor turn off at the time I set in the desktop
properties box.

If I set everything to a very short time like 1 minutes, yes they seem
to work. But ifI I set to 10 minutes and 20 minutes respectively
nothing will happen. Some how the Monitor will switch off after
something like an hour.

I have set power management to "user define" in the Bios. Did I miss
some settings?

ABC
 
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Andrew Murray

ABC said:
XP Pro on K7V old Mobo with K7. Said to be ACPI compliant, 512M Ram

It runs XP very well, but I notice that the monitor does not enter
screensaver mode nor turn off at the time I set in the desktop
properties box.

If I set everything to a very short time like 1 minutes, yes they seem
to work. But ifI I set to 10 minutes and 20 minutes respectively
nothing will happen. Some how the Monitor will switch off after
something like an hour.

I have set power management to "user define" in the Bios. Did I miss
some settings?

ABC
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The settings to switch off the monitor is in the Desktop Properties box
under "Advanced" or "Power Management" etc.

Perhaps some system activity is preventing the s/saver from activating,
because it is supposed to go to s/saver mode when the system is idle.
 
A

ABC

The settings to switch off the monitor is in the Desktop Properties box
under "Advanced" or "Power Management" etc.

Perhaps some system activity is preventing the s/saver from activating,
because it is supposed to go to s/saver mode when the system is idle.
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It seems a number of people have this problem. See previous posting
by Raoul on 1/15 this year

I found an event Log which says"ACPI bios is attempting to read from
an Illegal I/O port......."

wondering if this is relevant.
ABC
 
G

Guest

My screensaver will only activate at a 1 minute prompt and my monitor doesn't
shut off when set at any time, If I'm logged off to 'Welcome screen'
everthing works as it should chgd. desktop,profile, useracct. nothing is
affecting this?
 

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