My childs monitor is in a sleep mode and won't wake up suspicious?

Question

We have bought the kids computers and I think one of them is trying to lock us out of their computers. When we went to check net activity the monitor would not come on, it looks like the monitor is in sleep mode turns green for just a second then yellow again with a black screen how can we get past this?

Answer 1

tell them to unlock it or the computer comes out

Answer 2

Just from what you typed it doesn't sound like a lock. Usually there is provisions for a pop-up box that requests a password.

When YOU are not checking it does your kid get past it (does the computer work for him/her?)

Some basics:

Try the key combination (all at once) and try to bring up the task manager (windows only). If it opens that will tell you what is running.

Re-boot the computer and try holding down the escape mode to get into the bios.. you may have a wrong monior setting.

If you can get back to the basic system, and you have windows xt, you need to set yourself up as an administrator and then establish the kids as users with slightly less levels of authorizaton. That way you can always log in and you can control what they can do to the computer.

In a worst case, simply tell the kids that the computer needs to go infor a harddisk upgrade and that they need to backup and save their data. After they do that (give them a portable hard drive for that), reformat the disk and set up your administrator rights.. then give it back.

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Answer 3

Most of the monitors usually have reset feature. So, try to reset your monitor to fix the problem. If the problem still occurs try replacing your monitor cable to detect the incoming video signal faster.