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As of yesterday my monitor will shut off (sleep mode ?) after just a couple minutes. I have checked all fans and all are working.

edit: Monitor does not come back on by moving mouse or any button.

P4 1.8
G4 440mx
Santa Cruz

greg

have all the latest drivers and what not? you monitor might be getting to hot...try blowing a house fan at it and see what happenes.
Good luck.

Greg

Hrmmm, does it come on at all? at startup? My first guess would be the power saving feature in start>settings>control panel>power options. There is an option there about having the monitor go off after a set amount of time, and also the standby settings, or you might try hibernate settings.

If you can't get any video, it's either your monitor, video card, or the cables. Check all your cables, even your mouse and keyboard for they might have gotten lose and therefore you wouldn't be able to wake up your computer from sleep mode. If nothing is working, try another monitor, or try removing your video card and puttign it back in. You might try using hte video card on another system.

Basically, the only things i can think of that could be the problem are:

1.) Windows settings
2.) Video (Monitor, Video Card)
3.) Hard Drive (almost any problem can relate back to the hard drive somehow, so it's something to keep in mind)

I've never had this problem before, well, once, but it was because my keyboard and mouse were unplugged when i moved my tower a little bit too far forward.

Good luck!

I had the same problem with win98 sometime ago.I think I got around it by
just bypassing all of the power saving features in both the o/s and in the bios.
It was less hassle to leave the machine
run and shut off the monitor.
Bill

I am on another monitor now and everything appears ok. I guess this will narrow it down to the monitor or cables? A little more info since I might have the time before the screen goes black.

I did notice about a week ago it would go to sleep (between races) while playing a game, but one move of the mouse and back it came.

Yesterday after just a couple of minutes online the monitor would shutoff and nothing would bring it back and really the computer would not shutdown properly. Reboot and everything would seem ok, but 2 minutes later...off again.

thanks again for the help,
greg

What operating system are you using? It does sound like one of the power saving features are on. Go to control panel and power options, be sure the monitor is set to "never".

But the problem isn't happening on the different monitor? If so then the other one may be overeating as nexus said. Could be excessive dust inside causing the problem.

Well, it did happen again with this other monitor today. Took about 30 minutes before it happened. This time it didn't go blank but had sqiggle lines. Might be this cheap video card. Nothing is overclocked...maybe i'll underclock this card and give it a try.

I'm still running 98se. I changed everthing to 'never' just in cas

thanks again,
greg