Solved Display Turns off in seconds?

[pinoysw1mmer]

Hi, I have a HP G60 laptop that's running 64bit Vista Home. It's been working well for me since the summer, and I just haven't gotten around to upgrading it yet. But anyways, I have a problem with the display. Not life-threatening, but basically the display turns off when my computer is idle.That part doesn't surprise me, since it's a feature. This would be perfectly fine if it didn't happen every 3 seconds (I counted in "Mississippi's"). If I don't type or move the mouse in 3 seconds, it turns off. Not sleep mode, just the wag my mouse and it turns on again thing. This is just really annoying because it makes viewing videos/text/anything tedious at best, and is just a general pain in the rear. :sa: What's up with it? I'm doing a quick scan of my computer with my avast! Home edition now, but I don't know if that's the problem. I was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem or if it's a common virus or something, and has an easy fix instead of me randomly trying to fix stuff.

Update, in the last few minutes it's decided that 3 seconds was too long. It dims every 1 second the computer is idle.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello pinoysw1mmer, welcome to Vista Forums!



That sounds like it's an app added by the PC manufacturer that starts when the PC is started, look around in "msconfig" to see if there's anything that looks like a "hibernation" manager; have a look at the tutorial at the link below to get some ideas; be sure to post back to keep us informed.

Troubleshooting with MSCONFIG - Windows 7 Forums

 

[pinoysw1mmer]

Alright, thanks for the quick reply! I'm reading the tutorial now. Hopefully that'll be it.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Alright, thanks for the quick reply! I'm reading the tutorial now. Hopefully that'll be it.

Don't disable more than 1 item at a time so it doesn't get confusing which one is which; do keep us informed.

 

[pinoysw1mmer]

Ah, okay thanks I think I found the culprit. It was actually some sonar freeware that's now on the fritz. It's been working fine for so long I forgot that it could be the problem. D'oh. I'm so embarrassed haha. Thank you so much for the quick fix.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Did that solve the issue?