Vista Tutorial - Monitor doesn't power off

Hi everyone,


as the subject says, I have a problem with my computer: the display
doesn't turn off after the configured time set in the active power plan.
The screensaver works fine, so it's not that (for example) a mouse is
giving random input. Also, when I shut down the computer, the display
jumps to powersaving, so the display works fine.

I've already tried a lot of things to solve it and I hope that someone
can help because I don't know what to do know....

Things I've tried:

- Set a different time in the power plan, set time time to disabled and
enabled again.
- Disable all wakeon devices by using powercfg
- Install a generic monitor driver instead of the Samsun 204B one.
- Use the secondary DVI port
- Update to the latest Nvidia drivers for my 7600GT
- Run Vista with all programs disabled (both tried msconfig and
safemode)
- Use the latest BIOS for my motherboard (S3 mode is set to enabled
according to powercfg).
- Installed the latest Intel INF files
- Create a new power plan
- Tried a different screensaver


So what can I try now?


thanks!


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Have you looked at your S3 settings in the BIOS setup configuration?
bios setup access keys. Go to:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

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"Peekstra" <Peekstra.34ixo6@xxxxxx-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
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Hi Mark,


the BIOS is configured to use S3 mode, and there are no monitor related
settings (gigabyte ds3).

However, I think that these settings are only relevant in sleep mode.


thanks.


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