Hi, I have changed the power settings in the control panel to never for sleep, hibernate and turn off display. However, i still notice that the screen goes blank and there is no sound exactly 20 minutes regardless of the player. I've tried with Windows Media Player and VLC. Once i move the mouse, the screen appears within 1-2 seconds.

I'm using Win 7 64 bit.

Did i miss any settings?

This post has been edited by silverwave: Nov 22 2009, 09:58 AM

try chose the 'Balanced' power plan. It happen to me once with win7. when im
sett the display to turn off at 10min but it suddenly turn off at 3min
But after dat id change the power plan and restored it to default setting, then change
the display turn off sett for 10min...it works

Or maybe some codec problem?

You power setting is probably set to turn off your screen after a set amount of time.

Or maybe it is set to go to sleep after a set amount of time. Then after it wakes up, your sound driver is not loaded properly, hence no sound for a while.

What version you used...?

Did you make optional setting...? Any...?

It is at balanced mode. The display turns off correctly when i set it. I tried 2 min and its works. Only for movies it's around 20 minutes.

I restored to default now and the display turns off and the com sleeps according to the default setting.

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Added on November 22, 2009, 6:55 pm

I'm using K lite codec but i used it with Vista and XP before. No problems.

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Added on November 22, 2009, 6:56 pm

I put never for both already.

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Added on November 22, 2009, 6:57 pm

For the display setting or player setting? Display yes, player no.

This post has been edited by silverwave: Nov 22 2009, 06:57 PM

Is any error given...?

Which setting you made on your display...?

No error.

I changed the monitor setting to turn off the display after 3 hours, never for sleep & hibernate.

Does not seem to work. I though of making a new profile and testing it.

This post has been edited by silverwave: Nov 22 2009, 07:23 PM

What is your motherboard? Could you give more details on your computer specifications...

And is your Windows 7 64-bit trial? If yes, then what build...? You can find them at bottom right...

Sure. Windows is not trial.

X4 945 3.00 AM3 4000 8MB

ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO

KINGSTON PC1333 2 x 2GB

Gigabyte 4670 HDMI 1GB

500GB 7200RPM 16MB SATA

ACBEL 510W E2

I believe you didn't install the GC driver, try install Windows 7 64-bit driver one...

Yes, there's a point there because i could not install from my cd. I think it's meant for vista/XP. However, i don't know what i did and it is installed at a older version. I updated it in the device manager.

Although i downloaded the latest version for Win 7, all will pass except the ATI display driver.

My thread few weeks ago
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1219827&hl=

The BSOD's mentioned there are due to Wifi USB.

This post has been edited by silverwave: Nov 22 2009, 10:07 PM

Since you mentions ATI display driver can't run properly, have you tried other GC.

Remember to remove driver first then change with other GC or using build-in GC? Have you try these 2 options...?

There's a latest driver for the gc. I downloaded and it works fine. Let me test the 20 minutes display thing and report here. Thanks for all the help so far.

The screen is still turning off in 20 minutes.

Let me test with a new power plan.

better check with computer service center...
my fren also got this case, he watch movie then whole screen go nothing, no sound, go to shop they say motherboard got problem...

2sens

Alright but before that i found some setting in the motherboard utility tool that puts the com to sleep and turn of hdd after 20 minutes. Let me test that tonight with a movie.