Monitor Refuses To Sleep

[relic]

Well, I finally worked it out. But the final answer still baffles me.

I installed AutoRuns and then disabled every item that I could imagine no
use for and all of the ones from questionable sources. Then I set monitor
sleep to 1 minute and started testing. The first go-round I knew that
something good had happened since the monitor slept. So then it was a
matter of enabling one item at a time and rebooting and waiting. Long
story made short: on the ninth reboot I hit paydirt. A task called NB
Agent was the culprit. The surprising thing is that this is part of Nero's
Backitup. This is one of the companies I would have trusted pretty far and
I disabled it not realizing that it was their program. Needless to say I'm
uninstalling their backup program right away. No money lost though since
the gave it to me as a free bonus when I bought Nero 9.

So ends the tale...

Sorta... NBAgent is running here and I have no problems at all with Sleep
Mode.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

This reminds me a lot of my post in this thread.

John,

For future use:

You could try enabling 1/2 of the items in a list. If the symptom persists
then problem is in the enabled 1/2, otherwise in the disabled 1/2.

 

[Canuck57]

New install of W7 Ultimate on a freshly-built Shuttle SX58-H7, i7-920,
6GB triple channel, Radeon HD5770, Patriot Torqx SSD system drive, WD
2tB green drive for data, old trusty ViewSonic 20" LCD. Latest video
(and all the rest too) drivers installed. Everything works beautifully
except that the blasted monitor refuses to go to sleep and I'm too lazy
(and forgetful) to turn it off manually more than occasionally.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? I've looked around but haven't turned
up anything. Searches on MS's site are hopeless unless I know ahead of
time exactly what terminology the KB writer was thinking of at the time
(and sometimes not even then). What is it that Windows monitors to see
if a computer is "idle"? Keyboard, mouse, something else?

Vista/Win 7 is loaded with them.

I have 2 users ont eh system, if I leave mine logged in and my wife
"switch user" and then logs out, I login to resume my session the screen
saver does not work. Repeatable too.

Reboot and use one account fixes it.