Windows 7: Power Options Not Working

I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my laptop and my desktop. My monitor no longer turns off after 20 minutes (what I have set in "when to turn Monitor Off") So I set when to turn monitor of after 1 minute, Results: monitors stay on all the time, never turning off on both my Laptop and my Desktop.

Try going to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings then click on Restore Default Setting For This Plan. Save changes, see what happens.

did that, same results. monitor stays on always, never shuts off

Does it show the same in both places?

well one's a laptop and the other a desktop, so, no they're not the same, the laptop has battery settings, the desktop doesn't. but both monitors are staying on well past 20 minutes

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Issue Reference #120329-000130
Summary: Monitors on both my laptop and desktop don't shut off after the prescribed 20 mi...
Product Level 1: GeForce graphics
Date Created: 03/29/2012 12:20 PM
Last Updated: 03/29/2012 12:20 PM
Status: New
Choose OS: Microsoft Windows 7 64bit
Product Name: GTX 580 GT9600M
Driver Version: 296.10

Discussion Thread
Customer By Web Form (RICHARD ZIMMERMAN) 03/29/2012 12:20 PM
Monitors on both my laptop and desktop don't shut off after the prescribed 20 minutes set in power options. Reverting back to driver 280.36 resolves this issue.

Update: After my monitor turned of after 30 minutes two different times, Now the monitor stays on all the time.

Sure sounds like a driver issue. Have you tried updating your Nvidia driver to the latest available version?

Also, with all the images you posted you didn't show what Display was set to under Advanced Options (my 2nd image and what I meant by the same in both places).

296.10 is the latest as I stated in my post I went to Microsoft's FIXIT program, which is the idiots fixit program because it just went to power options and reset the options to default which I already did by myself, it didn't "fix" anything