exeng
27th Apr 2008, 23:43
Hi all,
I can't get my computer to turn off the monitor after a specified time.
I'm running Vista on a m'board that has on board graphics - however I am using another graphics card which leads me to suspect it may be part of the problem - i.e. Vista may be switching off the wrong graphics?
Out of interest I was forced into an emergency m'board upgrade from Maplins as the other one had fried itself with most peculiar results. Initially I thought that Vista had 'gone off it's trolley' as some programs didn't work, others did, and the mouse had left for some cheese! On start up the puter was finding faults with the hard disks that it needed to spend half an hour checking.
I spent a day re-loading Vista after trying various things that seemed a good idea at the time - then re-loaded Vista and everything was just as bad. I replaced the m'board (with a very fast AMD processor) and everything worked just fine - apart from the energy saving bits. I put the original m'boards processor into my Son's computer and it is behaving impecably.
It's years since I've had an m'board failure and I was surprised to find that it failed in the way it did - the last time it happened I ended up 'counting the beeps' for fault diagnosis - straight in the bin!
Regards
Exeng
I can't get my computer to turn off the monitor after a specified time.
I'm running Vista on a m'board that has on board graphics - however I am using another graphics card which leads me to suspect it may be part of the problem - i.e. Vista may be switching off the wrong graphics?
Out of interest I was forced into an emergency m'board upgrade from Maplins as the other one had fried itself with most peculiar results. Initially I thought that Vista had 'gone off it's trolley' as some programs didn't work, others did, and the mouse had left for some cheese! On start up the puter was finding faults with the hard disks that it needed to spend half an hour checking.
I spent a day re-loading Vista after trying various things that seemed a good idea at the time - then re-loaded Vista and everything was just as bad. I replaced the m'board (with a very fast AMD processor) and everything worked just fine - apart from the energy saving bits. I put the original m'boards processor into my Son's computer and it is behaving impecably.
It's years since I've had an m'board failure and I was surprised to find that it failed in the way it did - the last time it happened I ended up 'counting the beeps' for fault diagnosis - straight in the bin!
Regards
Exeng