Screen keeps going black because of inactivity

[michellewjy]

Well, my computer screen has been going black for every 5 minutes, but i've already set all the options to never or to 0 minutes, but still the black screen just appears when im watching video or whatever that im doing without using the mouse. Can you please help me solve this problem because it's kinna annoying. Thank you

 

[archie123]

screen saver? , i know its not supposed to kick in but mine even does when im benchmarking with prime 95!!

 

[The Master]

yes it your screen saver

to disable

right click desktop - personalise and selct screensaver and turn off

 

[michellewjy]

i've already select the option 'none' but still the black screen keeps on appearing when im inactive.

 

[myzr7]

Have you tried to upgrade your driver for your graphics card. Is this a new pc? Did you upgrade from Vista? Good luck to you with your problem.

 

[Faladu]

Are the fans all stopping too? Going into hibernation mode, I wonder?
Your monitor have it's own inactivity mode that might need adjusting?

Try this: click your start menu, in the search box type CMD
Once the CMD box comes up, do: powercfg -h off
It will not say anything, you have just turned off hibernation (very large hiberfil.sys)

If this gives error about admin, I am on as an admin acct, you might need to run command prompt as admin from the programs/accessories listing.

 

[karlsnooks]

to run cmd as administrator (what's called an elevated command prompt)

WIN key | type CMD.EXE | do NOT hit Enter key | Right-click on CMD.EXE in the list (it'll be the top one) | click on Run as administrator


WIN key is the one with the funny looking wavy flag on it.

 

[gregrocker]

OP may not want to turn off Hibernation, just check its setting under Sleep in Advanced Power Options.

Check also Display and Sleep timeout, and set your preferred Power Options plan to default settings.

 

[ahiranta]

Are the fans all stopping too? Going into hibernation mode, I wonder?
Your monitor have it's own inactivity mode that might need adjusting?

Try this: click your start menu, in the search box type CMD
Once the CMD box comes up, do: powercfg -h off
It will not say anything, you have just turned off hibernation (very large hiberfil.sys)

If this gives error about admin, I am on as an admin acct, you might need to run command prompt as admin from the programs/accessories listing.

I tried what you described above but I am getting the following message:

!powercfg-h off is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

This is a brand new computer and it keeps going onto a black screen ALL THE TIME!! can not watch any online TV or editing work or even brows through amazon without having to keep pushing a button or move the mouse around.

Tried changing the power setting; no change although I have set it on never going to sleep mode etc.

Any idea?

 

[TechnoDaft]

Don't Put The Screensaver As Blank Put It As None Blank Put A Blank Black Screen Up In The Time Set For It

 

[neo1384]

Do your screensaver thing that should be easy enough, if it still happens, you might need to adjust when your computer sleeps.

Click on the start button (bottom far left) in the little search bar at the bottom (if you are using Win7) type in sleep, should be pretty easy from there, it will have change when computer sleeps, it should give you the options and just say when you want to sleep, or just never.
hope it helps

 

[hydrod]

screen going blank

Ya had the same problem, and setting the screen saver to NONE did the trick. Feel like a dummy had it set to BLANK

 

[Karnoz]

Solved

I know this is a very late reply but incase anyone is still looking for a solution. I've seen a lot of responses saying you should turn of your screen saver, but that did not work for me and this is how I solved the problem:

1. Go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options
2. There will be options to select your power plan, next to each option there is a blue text that says "Change plan settings" Click the one next to your selected power plan.
3. There will be two options: "Turn of the display: .... " and "Put the computer to sleep: .... " There you can change how long the computer can remain inactive until the screen goes black or until the computer is set in sleep mode. Set both to "Never" and the screen should no longer turn itself of because of inactivity.