Go to Advance Power Settings.
Set hard drive to turn off a minute or 2 before sleep.
Set Hybrid and Hibernate modes to "Off"
Under USB settings select "Disable"
Under Multimedia select "Allow ....."
<Franz> wrote in message
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> My system is a Dell Dimension 9200 running Vista Ultimate.
>
> For an unknown reason my desktop computer does not go to the sleep mode. I
> did set the power options settings for the computer to go to sleep after
> 30
> minutes.
>
> One odd thing is that the display does not turn off either. I set the
> screen
> saver to turn on after 15 minutes - which it does. I also set the display
> to
> turn off after 20 minutes - but it never turns itself off.
>
>
>
> Any idea what could be wrong?
>
> Franz
>
> Franz