Monitor randomly turns on

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calloftheblade · #1 Post by **calloftheblade** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:55 am

Whenever I turn off my monitor, for some reason it turns back on after 20 minutes or so, and I don't touch the keyboard or anything, so can someone explain to me whats going on.

stgreek · #2 Post by **stgreek** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:27 am

calloftheblade wrote:Whenever I turn off my monitor, for some reason it turns back on after 20 minutes or so, and I don't touch the keyboard or anything, so can someone explain to me whats going on.

Check 3 things, in that order:

1. Screensaver times
2. Power settings on windows, if you run windows
3. Bios power settings

Usually problem is number 1, but in any case I would suggest going to bios and setting all setting to maximum performance since that way they wont clash with OS (Win/Linux at least) settings.

calloftheblade · #3 Post by **calloftheblade** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:31 pm

I checked the first two.... and for 1. screensaver:none 2. thinkpad default power settings...... and I don't know how to check 3, so can u give me a procedure as to how to do it? thanks.

jeeva · #4 Post by **jeeva** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:45 pm

1. Restart or Turn your Laptop on
2. When you see the Big IBM ThinkPad Logo press F1
3. Go to Power and check these Settings.

But also check your background programs in Windows.

calloftheblade · #5 Post by **calloftheblade** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:03 pm

background settings.... what do u mean by that exactly?

stgreek · #6 Post by **stgreek** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:03 am

calloftheblade wrote:background settings.... what do u mean by that exactly?

Programs that may execute in the background on a set time interval (an antivirus program, or something like that), and which wake the monitor up.

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