Have you tried hitting the <Enter> key?
Could be your HD is is miss set to turn off and you have to wait for it to
spin back up before windows restarts, why don't you just hybernate?
"David Wess" <dwess@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have my monitor display set to turn off after 15 minutes. Screen saver is
>set to engage after five minutes. Problem is, once the monitor turns off,
>it will not turn back on unless I reboot by pressing the power button on my
>computer. There is nothing else I can try because the monitors (dual) are
>both completely blank. The only way I can prevent this from occurring is by
>disengaging all screen savers and 'turn off display'. Then the screen saver
>never engages, and monitors never to blank, but I have to press the power
>buttons on the monitors to turn them off when I am not using the computer.
>
> I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit, with all updates installed. I
> have 3GB memory. My video card is an ATI Radeon X1600 Series with 512MB
> memory. I just updated the drivers yesterday (11/11/07) to 8.421.0.0 dated
> 9/28/07. My computer is a HP running at 3.6MHz. Other than the display
> issues, the computer runs just fine.
>
> What adjustments should I make so that I can use my screen saver and so
> that I can set my display to turn off after 15 minutes?