Screen goes dark on own, PLEASE HELP?

Question

Ok.. my computer screen goes dark on its own. Ive tried a different monitor, ive tried a different outlet, ive tried a different surge, ive tried updating everything, ive tried EVERYTHING. And its still dimming on me. What it does exactly, is the contrast or brightness levels pop up, and automatically go down on their own, and once its down it rarely goes back up. Its not the monitor, becuz ive tried 2 so its obviously my hard drive SOMEWHERE. Any ideas? I have $ i can spend but i need to go the cheapest option possible. So anyyyyone with an idea, a clue, an anything.. PLEASE help me this has been going on for 2 months, and its driving me INSANE!

Its not shutting off, or going into sleep mode. its dimming itself basically. Ive ran all my scanners to be sure that i'm not infected,or have a virus.

Answer 1

Could it be your power settings? Right click on your desktop and select properties. The display properties window will pop up. Select the screensaver tab. Then at the bottom click on power. There will be a variety of settings which set how soon the computer tells the hard/monitor/system to go into sleep mode....

This may be your problem...

Answer 2

Any chance someone is messing with you? If the screensaver is set to "blank" the screen will go black. To check screensaver settings right click while pointing at a blank portion of the screen. You then click on screensaver and look at what is selected!? It's easy then to select something else and preview it before making it permanent/operational. Also, the energy power-down settings might be turning your monitor off

Good Luck!

Answer 3

Try reformatting ur hard drive and reinstalling your operating system, then reinstalling your video graphivs drivers and/or monitor drivers. This is probably just more time consuming than it is expensive, unless you don't have an OS copy disk or your original system restore disks. If you have either of those, then aside from having to get someone esle to do it if u don't know how, then only main thing that you will spend on doing this is time.

Answer 4

right click desk top and go to screen saver power settings look at the monitor shut off settings..

Answer 5

too late to answer this one giga and fre already answered the question there's no doubt about that it's you're power settings if you're using a mac this is another possible solution system prefs>energy saver if pc well then your good to go.

Answer 6

if it's not the monitor and you checked all your connections, then your graphics/video card may be the problem

Answer 7

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