Keith Patrick

OK, I think I found the root problem, but it isn't just that one setting.
Basically, I have my power scheme set to Balanced, with monitor shutoff
after an hour and sleep after 2. However, the monitor is shutting off closer
to 15 minutes and sleep is happening in 30. I have gone into the power
settings and come out, and every time I see it, it's still set to Balanced
with 1 & 2 hours. So what looks like is going on is that Vista is using some
other, very aggressive power scheme, but the user interface for setting it
is not being obeyed. Granted, the UI shows the settings I have put in, but
Vista itself is using some other kind of settings, and I don't know where
they are coming from.
So it looks like power mgmt is about as flaky as 2K and XP, albeit in a
different way (2K and XP sleep mode would work for about 2 weeks, then it
would quit sleeping)