How Make Monitors Sleep When Inactive??

[TomBrooklyn]

How do I make my monitors go to sleep after a period of inactivity?


They used to go to sleep, but I turned that off for a specific reason. Now I can't remember how I did it, and now I can't find where to restore the sleep functionality.

I used to use integrated graphics and now I have a video card, if that matters.

 

[Bongo]

This tutorial should help http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/778-power-plan-settings-change.html

Jerry

 

[TomBrooklyn]

That ought to do it. Thanks.

 

[TomBrooklyn]

I got that to get the monitors to go to sleep, but after sleeping for several hours, they didn't wake up when I pressed some keys. I had to reboot the computer to wake them up.


When they were only asleep for about 30 minutes, though, they woke up promptly and easily with the press of a key.

 

[Bongo]

Did you set just your monitor to go to sleep or the hard drive also?

May be just resetting things back to the default settings will help http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/950-power-plan-restore-default-settings.html


Have a look at this, this may help NEW COMPUTER USING WINDOWS 7 WILL NOT WAKE UP FROM SLEEP MODE. I HAVE TO MANUALLY TURN IT OFF AND BACK ON.

Jerry

 

[TomBrooklyn]

It seems to be working properly again most of the time. One time after it had been asleep overnight, it didn't wake up immediately, but when I allowed it to take it's own course, it woke up after about 5-10 minutes. So the jury is still out, but it seems to be working OK.

 

[Bongo]

That's good to hear.