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  • #1

    Monitor sleeps after 20 mins

    Win 7 Pro 64bit

    GeForce vid card, DX 10-level from within the last couple of years, unsure of exact model

    ASUS p55somethingorother mobo, core i3 cpu
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    I've been having an odd issue for some time now -- My computer will cut off the video signal to my monitor right at twenty minutes anytime I'm watching a video or listening to music, as it apparently considers the comp to be "idle", unless I'm sitting right in front of it and jiggle the mouse every 15 mins or so.

    If I am sitting at my comp to watch something, this is only a minor annoyance -- if I'm on the couch and just wanna watch a movie or something, it's a major hassle.

    The thing is..

    - It happens whether I connect to my LCD monitor (DVI) or my TV (HDMI); the TV actually drops to "no signal found" mode and audio gets cut off, too

    - Active Power scheme in Windows set to "never" turn off the monitor (tried setting it to 5 hours, too, no help) nor HD, no sleep/hibernate/hybrid/etc allowed. Not sure if I can disable power schemes, but I have it set to "high performance"/always on, in addition to manually disabling anything sleep-related

    - Nothing in the BIOS I can see that would affect this (set to S3 for suspend, as default)

    - Nothing in the Nvidia control panel I can see that would affect this, nor in the video player settings

    - Happens in mediaplayer, zoom player, VLC, all of 'em

    The really odd thing is this: The video/audio keep playing when the screen goes to sleep, it just doesn't play either one. If I allow it to "sleep" at 20 minutes and come back 5 minutes later, the video will be at 25 minutes. (tho, sometimes the video just glitches out and forces me to kill the media player and reload the video)

    Any ideas?
    "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
    "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
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  • #2
    Is the Screensaver on and set to "blank" or "black"? Sorry if I missed you mentioning that above.
    I am so SO glad I was not present for this. There would have been an unpleasant duct tape incident. - Joi

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    • #3
      Reinstall the power management drivers.
      There's no such thing as a stupid question... just stupid people.

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      • #4
        Screensaver is disabled completely. Monitor/TV behaves as if the signal from the vidcard had been cut completely when this happens.

        Will check on drivers.

        Thanks!
        "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
        "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
        "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
        "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
        "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
        "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
        Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
        "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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        • #5
          Got it working -- no luck on the driver front, so I just started going through my active TSRs/background stuff. Turns out, the auto-overclocker applet that came with the mobo was forcing the card to idle (because it sensed no mouse/keyboard input), and overriding Windows' settings
          "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
          "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
          "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
          "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
          "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
          "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
          Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
          "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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          • #6
            if worse comes to worse... mouse jiggler?

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            • #7
              Quoth EricKei View Post
              ... Turns out, the auto-overclocker applet that came with the mobo was forcing the card to idle (because it sensed no mouse/keyboard input), and overriding Windows' settings
              Another instance of feeping creaturism.
              I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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              • #8
                Wireless woes

                Heehee.

                Now I have another issue, more of an advice thing. After about an hour of fiddling with my wireless router setttings (WRT54G 4 LIFE!) *almost* at random , I was able to get my router to accept the incoming signal from the source (main house, I now live in a "mother-in-law's apartment" type situation). Thing is, it's a 100+ year old solid brick house, and we all know what that means for wireless signals, don't we, boys and girls?

                I have close to line of sight to the source router (gotta love leaded glass windows...), the signal is plenty fast, but, thus far, it has crapped out/disconnected completely at least four times in the past hour, then resumed just as randomly a minute or two later.

                I don't do online gaming MUCH, but I do use Steam, so this could be a problem.

                I have two WRT54G's -- the source, which is plugged directly into the cable modem, has a standard one; the receiving unit is a v4 that has been flashed with custom firmware. I also have the corresponding WRT54G access point (v2 or v3, I think), also flashed, not currently in use.

                Our two options --

                Set them up in a "bridge" setup (in which case, which of the two latter units should be the bridge and which should be in my 'house'?) I also have a wired hub/router so I can split the signal at my end if needed, as the AP has only one port. One issue with this is that, as the source router is being seen as a Gateway, both WRT's share the same IP address (.1.1), so I'm not sure how to re-enable access to my local router without messing up the source one. Resetting the entire router on my end will kick it to .1.1 anyway.

                OR

                Buy some weatherproof/waterproof internet cable and just run it around the side of the house through the floors/etc/underground where needed and not have to worry about the wireless being flaky. Any ideas on cost for the materials for such a thing? About 200 feet distance, here.
                Last edited by EricKei; 01-23-2013, 12:41 AM. Reason: revised title
                "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                • #9
                  about 15 bucks in cable for 200 ft but you are better off bridging where yours should be the bridge/repeater

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                  • #10
                    Use the AP as the repeater or the v4 router as the repeater?
                    "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                    "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                    "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                    "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                    "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                    "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                    Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                    "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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