Monitor won't go 'bo-bo's'
 

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

Are you using a Vista-compatible driver for your add-on card?

Ken
 

I'm abroad at the moment so will get back to you on the driver issue - however I'm fairly sure it is Vista compliant.

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll check it out when I get back. The 'puter is capable of dual boot with XP on the other disk - I'll see if XP power saving switches off the monitor.


Regards
Exeng

...............EE - do you have a link to a definition of "bo-bo's"?:E

I doubt there will be a link to it, but...

"The Goodies" circa 1970-something, Tim Brooke Taylor was known to say, "Time for sleepy bo-bo's" at bed time. :)

Thanks Ken - a new chat-up line:)

Monitor now behaving!
 

Thats it - I did nothing and for some reason it has started behaving and going to sleep when told.


Regards
Exeng

That's the best sort of fix. :ok:

I thought EVERYONE knew "bo-bo's" was sleepy time?! :O