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xendrome

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I noticed this on Vista as well. I am using Balanced as my power scheme. I change the monitor to low power after 3 minutes, instead of 20. Apply the setting. It works fine, until something triggers it back to 20 minutes.

No idea what it is, I can standby the system, and resume it after a day or so. And next thing I know when I Winkey+L it takes 20 minutes to standby the monitor is when I start to notice it.

Anyone else?
 

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xendrome said:
I noticed this on Vista as well. I am using Balanced as my power scheme. I change the monitor to low power after 3 minutes, instead of 20. Apply the setting. It works fine, until something triggers it back to 20 minutes.

No idea what it is, I can standby the system, and resume it after a day or so. And next thing I know when I Winkey+L it takes 20 minutes to standby the monitor is when I start to notice it.

Anyone else?
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Maybe a silly question.

Have you pressed save changes after changing the profile?

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Windows 7 RTM
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Intel Core 2 Quad QX9770 @ 3.2GHZ
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Dell XPS 730 H2C
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Corsair 1600MHZ DDR2
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Dual Nvidia GTX280 in SLI
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Creative X-Fi
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Dell 30inch 3007WFP left - right Acer 19inch
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xendrome said:
Yes, of course. And it saves. Works, for however long. Then reverts back.
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I honestly have no clue. Will go look for it.
Extra set of eyes can't hurt.

greetz
 

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I've seen this :D.
 

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xendrome said:
Bump. Anyone else have any insight?
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Wish I could help.

the usual always applies

update drivers, bios, etc. clean install.

Since it did this in vista as well it has to be hware/driver. I would think bios driver, but im sure you did that already

Ken
 

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On the list of "It can't hurt to try" - disable legacy USB support in BIOS.
 
I gave up on it and put commandline options like

C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -x -disk-timeout-ac 0
C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -x -disk-timeout-dc 0
C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -x -hibernate-timeout-ac 0
C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -x -hibernate-timeout-dc 0
C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -x -monitor-timeout-ac 0
C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -x -monitor-timeout-dc 0
C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -x -standby-timeout-ac 0
C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.exe -x -standby-timeout-dc 0

in my startup. Of course, you can modify the zeros meaning "never" to numbers denoting time before the action.
 

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ao1 says "I gave up on it". I have too. I've tried creating a new profile and making changes to system-supplied profiles. NOTHING works. It keeps resetting the monitor and disk timeouts (and possibly other things too, however those are the two I wanted to adjust). So I took your excellent suggestion, made it into a bat file and set it up in Task Scheduler. It runs on Startup, Resume, and at 7 minutes after each hour. I never see it do anything, but my power options are now stable. Finally.
 

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I have noticed a similar problem in Win 7 but it is with settings in Quicken, and with login problems via a browser (logging into my bank or into my Verizon acct) they are always asking me additional questions as if I have not used this computer before to log into these accts.

I found that if I turn OFF system restore these problems go away, as soon as I turn on system restore they start again.

Anyone have an answer as to why this is???
 

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