HI,
I have the annoying probelm with my XP build that the screen saver and the power options (dropping into stand by, turning off monitor and hard disks) stopped working. These are the power features that happen from inactivity that you set in your display settings. These features were working OK before and stopped in the last month or so. The comptuer will go into stand by if you tell it by using the option in start-> shutdown.
From a functional point of view, it seems the timer that controls these stopped working. Or something is constantly resetting them (something active).
I have gone through the microsoft knwoledge base and the forums here in Tom's and I can't find a similar problem reported or any related info.
There are two recent changes to this PC. I recently added an external HDD for back up and that includes the back up software, and I update the catalyst control center and video driver for my ATI card.
In the past, I have noticed if some programs are open (like Itunes) then these power features don't work, but when I close these programs, they work OK. So I have tried closing down all applications running in the background, like disk backup, steam, itunes, etc. This doesn't seem to help.
Anyone have any idea what is causing this or how I can fix this?
thanks
jim
Intel c2d e6700 OC to 3.2GHz
Asus P5b deluxe mobo
2 GB DDR2-667 ram
ATI x1950 pro graphics card
2 x 300GB HDD (raid 0)
I have the annoying probelm with my XP build that the screen saver and the power options (dropping into stand by, turning off monitor and hard disks) stopped working. These are the power features that happen from inactivity that you set in your display settings. These features were working OK before and stopped in the last month or so. The comptuer will go into stand by if you tell it by using the option in start-> shutdown.
From a functional point of view, it seems the timer that controls these stopped working. Or something is constantly resetting them (something active).
I have gone through the microsoft knwoledge base and the forums here in Tom's and I can't find a similar problem reported or any related info.
There are two recent changes to this PC. I recently added an external HDD for back up and that includes the back up software, and I update the catalyst control center and video driver for my ATI card.
In the past, I have noticed if some programs are open (like Itunes) then these power features don't work, but when I close these programs, they work OK. So I have tried closing down all applications running in the background, like disk backup, steam, itunes, etc. This doesn't seem to help.
Anyone have any idea what is causing this or how I can fix this?
thanks
jim
Intel c2d e6700 OC to 3.2GHz
Asus P5b deluxe mobo
2 GB DDR2-667 ram
ATI x1950 pro graphics card
2 x 300GB HDD (raid 0)