Power saving plan problem

Hi can anyone help with this?

Had to do a rebuild on my pc, before rebuild, on power settings option I could set timeout for screen and put the computer to sleep.

After the rebuild Put the computer to sleep is greyed out and will take no changes.

PC is on a domain, I am an admin, yet it keeps saying it may be a group policy, but Dammit I'm an admin..... Any suggestions?
Thx

Hi, this is usually because you need to update your chipset drivers for your motherboard. A clean install of windows doesn't always provide drivers that exploit the full capability of the hardware. I had a Desktop unit that showed this exact same behaviour after a fresh install of Xp. Just needed to go to the mobo manufacturers website to get the drivers.

Windows update might find them automatically - worth a go.

Cheers

Hi, Tried windows update, no joy. Will try the mobo site.

This is really frustrating, I can't seem to get a fix for this. I know it's a small thing, but it saves money.

The curious thing is that I have 2 other pcs with the same problem, and they were not rebuilt. There is one pc on the network that does not have this problem. All users have the same permissions. Weird

Is there anyone alive out there who may know what this is?

I don't think this is MOBO drivers vistapete, as I have 3 pcs (just noticed the third one) not all were rebuilt.

The closest I can find for this is group permissions (mentioned somewhere) I have set all three pc users to admin, yet I cannot set sleep on any of them, it is greyed out.
Surely someone must know what this is? Take pity on me.
Phatt

Hi Phatt:
Check this it might help you: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63567-power-options-sleep-mode-problems.html

Thanks Mak74, but I think I have some sort of permissions problem, the link you posted allows me to go to step four on number 2.
Sleep is never, and still greyed out.
Plus I get this message
Why won't Windows allow me to change a system setting?


If your computer is part of a network at an organization such as a school, government agency, or a business, your organization's system administrator might have disabled or even removed certain settings by using Group Policy.

I have 3 pcs on the network ALL are set on the user as an admin, but something is stopping it - not sure how group policy works. Any ideas? Thanks