Vista - Monitor shuts off

set your power plan to performance and see if it solves the issue

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 10/24/2009 8:07:34 AM
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Brenda-PC
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 198800ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 10/24/2009 3:03:53 PM
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance" Guid="{cfc18ec0-96b1-4eba-961b-622caee05b0a}" />
<EventID>100</EventID>
<Version>1</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>4002</Task>
<Opcode>34</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-10-24T15:07:34.215Z" />
<EventRecordID>1544</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{00000001-0000-0000-AF8F-BB33BB54CA01}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1568" ThreadID="3956" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>Brenda-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data>
<Data Name="BootStartTime">2009-10-24T15:03:53.702Z</Data>
<Data Name="BootEndTime">2009-10-24T15:07:31.032Z</Data>
<Data Name="SystemBootInstance">334</Data>
<Data Name="UserBootInstance">324</Data>
<Data Name="BootTime">198800</Data>
<Data Name="MainPathBootTime">157600</Data>
<Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">17</Data>
<Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">5161</Data>
<Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">6975</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">40133</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">764928000</Data>
<Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">5389</Data>
<Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">746</Data>
<Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">1259</Data>
<Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">588</Data>
<Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">131397</Data>
<Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">7</Data>
<Data Name="BootPostBootTime">41200</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsRebootAfterInstall">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsStepDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsGradualDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootImprovementDelta">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootDegradationDelta">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsRootCauseIdentified">false</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

I have changed the power setting to performance and will see what happens this afternoon since that is always when the shut off occurs.
Thank you for the suggestions so far. I will report back with the results good or not

Anything in the reliability monitor?

I TRIED TO FIGURE OUT HOW i COULD SEND THE RESULTS TO YOU9 oops sorry not yelling.) I could not copy and paste andnothing would let me send either. The sections at the bottom said there were no events or failures in any of the areas.

it shut off at 1:26 and i used the on off button to report in and will go get my laptop to ck if thre are any more suggestions from you all. It will only stay on for a few minutes once it goes off.
I just keep thinking there is something I have overlooked in all this process but cannot figure out how it would have been changed in the first place.

Hi Brendalynne

If you move the laptop lid back & forth, does the monitor shut off?

Sorry, the challenge is on the Dell PC and I have switched to the laptop to ck on replies after the monitor went off the second time\\By the way both units are less than a yr old. Not by much but they are

Check the setting on your monitor.

where did my response go???