power saving

Our home is equipped with a relatively old gas heater, built in 1996. It still works great, has been serviced regularly since it was installed and there is no good reason to replace it yet. However, it isn’t as energy efficient as more recent models. The other aspect of this gas water heater is...

So i don't exactly know if this is the right forum to post this but does disabling a device actually save energy? For example, i have two CD-ROM players, if i disable one of them do i actually have any advantege in doing so?

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...

at my company we have a problem where we are struggling to get people to turn off their desktops when they leave to go home. we found a neat trick to use task scheduler to switch off the PC's at night if they weren't being used, but our problem now is monitors. is there anyway to send a...

Hi Why, and how can I prevent it, does the power to USB devices go off when the PC is in power save mode (ie goes to sleep ) - even though all the usb controllers are set to not allow the pc to turn off the usb, (box unchecked) and the usb selective suspend mode in advanced power settings is...

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I've just upgraded the OS on a workstation, from Vista ult 64 to win 7 pro 64. It has all the latest updates installed. I also used the opportunity to install Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011. The latest hotfix is installed. My problem is that windows 7 goes to sleep after the specified period...

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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...

Good day. The Acer monitor here on my home-built computer enters power save mode (the power light turns amber) exactly 20 minutes after I last touch the keyboard or mouse. When I am watching movies on my computer, it gets frustrating that I have to move the mouse every so often just so that I...

Heya, I'm experiencing a crippling problem with my Windows 7 system. When I leave the computer unattended for some time, it turns of the screen. The screens power button starts to blink green, when the screen is on and there is a signal, it lights green constantly, when there is no signal it...

Hi there. I recently (~6 months ago) bought a new laptop. An HP Compaq 6735b to be more exact. I have been running Windows 7 32-bit until lately where I decided to buy another 2Gb of RAM. I now had 4Gb ram in total and didnt see any reason why not to use the 64-bit version of Windows 7. (we get...

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...