I like watching streaming and dvd movies on my computer. My problem is that after 20 minutes of no activity (even when the movie is playing) my monitor goes black and gives me a "No Signal" message and then turns itself off. This has occasionally caused my computer to crash. To me, it feels like the computer wants to go into like a sleep or screen saver mode, because it happens after 20 minutes. I have tested this by moving my mouse at intervals during a movie and then have experienced no problems.
I assume there is something built into the monitor to turn it off if it does not seem to be in use.
Any ideas?
2007-08-04 20:32:04 · 8 answers · asked by TJ 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
Screen power saver mode being enabled
Richt click your desktop,
Select properties.
Click "Screen saver" at the top of the window
Then set screen saver to "None" and click "power" button below this
Set Turn off monitor, and Turn off harddrive to NEVER, same for System Standby.
Click Save As, name it always on. and OK
Go back enjoy movies.
2007-08-04 21:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by stu_the_kilted_scot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to start, control panel, power options. Make sure power scheme is set to always on, and the turn off monitor and hard disk settings are set to never.
2007-08-04 20:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by Scott n 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first thing you need to do is check your settings in your control panel. go to your power options and see what that says under automatic power down. or something to that effect. that's probably where the problem is. and it that doesn't work, you might have an error on your software for you monitor. but check your power settings first.
2007-08-04 20:44:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure you plugged the 6-pin power connector to your HD4850. then make sure you have the monitor cable plugged in the correct spot. you might have 2 output jacks on your gpu, 1 works with monitor 1 and has to be used. drivers are not installed until after you boot into windows.
2016-05-18 21:20:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a loose connection. If you don't turn a monitor off it won't go into sleep mode itself.
2007-08-04 20:35:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
go to start,control panel,power options, and on system standby but 1 hr and also where it says"turn off moniter"
2007-08-04 20:39:28 · answer #6 · answered by dan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe the wire from the back got loose and thats y it keeps happeneing
2007-08-04 20:35:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
read my answer to a previous question asked today...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArOoTmxoRdJXZyp20iYEv4_ty6IX?qid=20070804211450AA8AHrc&show=7#profile-info-64972e0c2f444e729f2f59c633721d8eaa
2007-08-04 20:38:56 · answer #8 · answered by againyourright 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋