After 2 days of running windows my monitor doesn't go into power save mode and its really getting on my nerves does anyone have any ideas why it would stop doing that? I have windows vista home basic with a 8400 GS video card.
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I have a
HP Compaq Presario
AMD Athlon X2 3600 dual core cpu @ 1.9Ghz
PNY 2GB Ram
Asus M2N68-LA Motherboard
Nvidia 8400 GS 256 video card
only thing I can tell you about my monitor is it has 1450 number on the front
display I can't read what the sticker says on the back my monitor is set to turn off at 10 minutes. for 2 days my monitor turns off after 10 mins as of for my setting for it to turn off at and after 2 days of my computer running it doesn't any more I have to restart my computer and its fine for another 2 days.
OK, so the monitor is not sleeping after 2 days of continuous use without a reboot, right? That is critical - it sounds like your system is going into some sort of bad loop most likely because of lack of RAM or else something in Task Manager keeps using more and more memory so the system starts paging stuff back and forth to the pagefile, or *else* it may even be an indexing issue.
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Correct, I have also stopped all of the processes that are unneccesary but system proccesses needed to run windows, also just found out would a bad connection on the back of the monitor running from the video card be a possible cause?
it could possible be that as well - but disabling processes that are running can also disable the process that enables sleep, if you're not careful. However, in your case I doubt that as it works for a couple of days and then stops.
Read that tutorial to see if any of those help....
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Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
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Logitech MX Master (shared)
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Logitech G15 (gen 2)
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AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
Operating System
Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
Manufacturer/Model
Lenovo ThinkPad E545
CPU
AMD A6-5350M APU
Motherboard
Lenovo
Memory
8 GB
Sound Card
Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
Monitor(s) Displays
Lenovo 15" Matte
Screen Resolution
1680 * 1050
Hard Drives
INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
Open:
Start -> Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options -> Choose when to turn off the display
MAKE SURE THIS DOES NOT SAY "never". Change this to how many minutes you want. If your computer is set to sleep automatically set this to 1 minute before sleep.
If you have your computer sleep, it will at least turn off the output to the monitor. You could use it as a temporary monitor sleep, as it turns the screen black. This also saves power.
Also, have you checked your monitor settings? Try scrolling the the options with the buttons on your monitor.
If you are going to leave your computer have you tried pressing the power off button on your monitor. Monitors in sleep mode still use power, this means the planet is still getting a carbon footprint.
I have a
HP Compaq Presario
AMD Athlon X2 3600 dual core cpu @ 1.9Ghz
PNY 2GB Ram
Asus M2N68-LA Motherboard
Nvidia 8400 GS 256 video card
only thing I can tell you about my monitor is it has 1450 number on the front
display I can't read what the sticker says on the back my monitor is set to turn off at 10 minutes. for 2 days my monitor turns off after 10 mins as of for my setting for it to turn off at and after 2 days of my computer running it doesn't any more I have to restart my computer and its fine for another 2 days.
No offense, but you should read the entire thread - it works for a couple of days and then stops working.
And 2W is still 2W, so Roy's suggestion is not a bad thing.
But, I personally think this is related to too many things taking memory and the computer remains 'active' so that the monitor does not want to turn off anymore....things like Indexing, browser caches, etc.
mansrm81, next time after a couple of days have passed, try closing every open *application* (Not in task manager, just on your desktop) and see if that helps.
Of note especially are any file sharing app - make sure all those are closed as well.
SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System)
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Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
PSU
Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
Case
ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
Cooling
Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
Mouse
Logitech MX Master (shared)
Keyboard
Logitech G15 (gen 2)
Internet Speed
AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
Operating System
Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
Manufacturer/Model
Lenovo ThinkPad E545
CPU
AMD A6-5350M APU
Motherboard
Lenovo
Memory
8 GB
Sound Card
Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
Monitor(s) Displays
Lenovo 15" Matte
Screen Resolution
1680 * 1050
Hard Drives
INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
