Re: Screen doesn't turn off

a workaround may be a shareware Turn Off Monitor at http://ww.rtsoftwares.com


"Bill" wrote:

> Same issue for me.
>
> Dell 9100 with Radeon x600 graphics
>
> Monitor powered down just fine in previous version of Vista but not after
> up[grading to Pre-RC1
>
> I did notice that the Upgrade did not load my monitor driver - it picked a
> standard driver. After manually loading the correct driver ( Dell 2005) I
> saw no change - problem still there.
>
> I hope they fix this one soon!
>
> Bill
>
> "Hauk" <Hauk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news05A62FD-60BD-4E72-A8C0-7807D8D4251F@microsoft.com...
> >I have Vista pre-RC1 build 5536. This is the first build I've tried on this
> > computer. I dual-boot into XP, works fine. I have a problem with that the
> > screen never goes into energy-save mode. After the set time out (20
> > minutes)
> > the screen goes black, but the monitor is still on, I can see that the
> > backlight is on, and the LED shows that it's on.
> > I have an AGP ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card. I've tried both with
> > Microsoft
> > graphics drivers, and ATI, some issue.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions,
> > /Hakan
> >
>