...winston

Are you sure Vista isn't doing something else in the background ? Checked the bios for other power options ? Other applications maintaining focus ?
...w

"Keith Patrick" <richard_keith_patrick@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23fHjU1RrHHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
: 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)
: