help needed with monitor going into sleep mode...

[Dee369]

when i walk away from computer for a few minutes or when i'm downloading anything that takes more then a few minutes my monitor goes into sleep mode and wont wake up. not even when i play with the mouse...when i run a maintence wizzard it does the same. i have to continuously play with the mouse to stop it from doing this...
when this happens i have to manually reboot and i lose any information that i was downloading....is there a setting somewhere that i can expand the time on it doing this?
also i am not running a screen saver....should i be? is that my problem? anyone who can help i would appreciate it..thx

[Guest110]

I think you can fix this by right-clicking your desktop, choose properties, choose screensaver, and then adjust your power settings from a link on there. but im not 100% sure
Windows ME info is like gold dust

[Dee369]

ok will try that and tell you if it works...thanks much..

[dbarrow]

All versions of Windows have had problems with screen savers and power saving settings.
If you have a screen saver enabled, do not set power to turn off monitor
If you have power set to turn off monitor (time), do not use a screen saver
Any of the hibernate or sleep functions can be flakey... don't use them

[mommalina]

Doug's advice worked for me some time ago. No screen
saver, no hibernate, no standby, no problems. :)

Lina

[Dee369]

thank you all so very much...my hard disk was set to go off after 10 minutes also...am running no screen saver now either..thank you all again
diane