power saving

Hi, I have my computer configured to turn display off after 3 minutes. After that time, the display turns off and when I press the power button on my pc case, it just turns the display on, so I have to press it again to enter standby mode. Is there a way to make the power button enter standby...

I recently purchased an Nvidia gtx 460 graphics card. Works great but when the monitor "wakes up" after a long period of time (typically when the computer has been sitting overnight), but the monitor image strobes repeatedly and will do so until I have opened at least one new program (which...

Hi - I seem to be having a similar problem that others have with windows 7 -have gone through the usual issues and none have solved it. I have a Dell Optiplex 745 -just did a clean install of Home Premium. Started dropping the internet connection. ipconfig release and renew solves the problem...

Because of an issue with an external drive, i have to not allow the power saving feature for hard drives. Apparently my external (LaCie) doesn't support power saving and when W7 enacts the mode the drive stalls. The problem being i have a total of 6 hard drives. I'd like the others to power save...

Hello, I've recently switched from Windows Vista to Windows 7 x64. I use the word switched instead of upgraded because I formatted my old drive instead of installing over Vista. I have been using two screens for forever now, both LG Flatron L1750HQ, both are digital and have served me well. My...

I've got an Asus G60 Laptop with an Atheros Ethernet adapter. Seemingly randomly it will stop working and when plugged into the same router that I'm currently connected flawlessly to through wifi display either: Identifying - No Network Access OR Unknown Network - No Network Access...

Win 7 Ent x64 Intel i7 , 6GB ram , System on SSD... Symptoms: 1. Some process cannot be killed, not even with force restart (both Windows Security restart or the shutdown command). Which is really bad, I cannot restart the PC remotely or heck, not even a safe restart, has to press RESET or...

Win 7 automatically shuts down on me after about 8 hours. No matter what I'm doing, it just powers down and I lose whatever was on the screen. I have a Dell laptop and use it on electricity only. It also sits on a unit with two cooling fans. Have never used it on battery. I checked my...

Hello, I'm trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate but during installation my monitor enters power saving mode. Could be a problem with my video card? I succeeded installing it once but after it starts after several minutes monitor enters power saving and also my keyboard stops working. I tried...

Hi I am running W7 64 Pro on a Ati HD 5750 GFx card my Dual displays (Dell SP2309W) are both connected with DVI. All latest drivers are installed. My issue is with the power-saving: when ever my displays are going to turn off automatically only one of my displays go to standby and the other...

Is there a program out there or a script that I can write to have it automatically disable / enable devices? I am trying to figure this out for power saving reasons on my laptop.

System: Win7 x64 Software: intellimouse 7, Wacom 6.1.2-5 I have had both my Wacom Intuos4 pen tablet and my Microsoft wireless optical mouse working at the same time before in Win7 x64, BUT - my screen saver and power saving features did not work. I read that there was an issue with the...

I've found hundreds of posts around the Internet on this, going back as far as January of 2007, and affecting every O/S from XP through Vista, and now into Windows 7....... For once, it's not my system experiencing the problem. A friend's system: quad core 8400, P5Q motherboard with current...

I own an Aspire 8735G Laptop with Windows 7 64 bit. I have had the laptop for barely 3 weeks and the following has started to occur. The menu's within Windows do not allow me to scroll through them. As an example, in the Power Saving window, when I click on the drop down menu to change the...

I have two problems actually. 1. The main problem is with my linksys usb adapter. When I did an upgrader from vista to 7 the following happened it would stop recgonizing the internet after a while and move to local access only. I was still able to access the router and could release and renew...

Hello to all. I'm new on W7 forum. The fix of halcion1's didn't helped for me (it did, but not for a long) I still have problems with disconnecting from internet (Home network > Network access works, but no Internet access). I've already unticked IPv6, disabled/deleted the Bonjour service/map...

I recently installed Windows 7 RC1 x64 from the download Microsoft had been providing. I have many questions about it as a new user to Windows 7 and am curious if there are solutions to these, or if they are known bugs. Also, some questions are more general in nature. 1) Sometimes while using...

Hi all, Preamble This is my first post so I thought I would start with a simple little problem first. I am running W7 x64 on the following platform: Intel desktop Board (DG31PR) Intel Core 2 duo 2.33MHz 3GB ram (2 modules 1gb & 2Gb running dual channel) 500GB Western Digital...

I've been trying to install Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) on a brand new Dell box (model: Optiplex 760) for the past week or so. I've tried both 32-bit and 64-bit. The issue I'd been having was a very interesting one. What would happen is that any processes on the computer (logging in, the clock...

Hi fellow beta testers, I have had an issue with windows 7 seems to affect all versions atleast for me. The issue is that my monitors 90% of the time will not go to power saving mode on their own after the computert has been idle. Occasioanlly the screensaver will not start either, in which...