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Monitor locks into either basketweave or black screen when idle more than 15 minutes

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Posted 23 April 2009 - 10:03 AM

Help! I have asked Gateway for their help - they obviously don't know what it is, maybe one of the readers knows. Whenever my desktop monitor is idle for more than 15 minutes it locks into either a basketweave pattern or black screen from which there is no exit except a cold shut down. I have defragged (3 hours plus) and run several antivirus programs - nothing seems to help. I have a Windows_vista system.
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Posted 23 April 2009 - 10:13 AM

What do you have your "Power Options" (or whatever Vista calls that control panel) set to do?
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Posted 23 April 2009 - 10:17 AM

It is set on balanced right now.
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Posted 23 April 2009 - 10:29 AM

You might have to wait for me to be able to re-boot into Vista to see what options there are before I might be able to help more at this point...I am not familiar with Vista's power/sleep/hibernate options off the top of my head.

In the mean time, someone else might be able to offer some help.
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