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Screen is dying after about 10 minutes
Hi,
first, a rant. Could the number of discussion groups (1500!) be reduced to something less daunting for the casual non-techy user? I was overwhelmed by the number of groups and really don't know if I'm posting in the correct one. Rant over. OK here's my problem. I have a 2yo Advent 9150 laptop wth Vista HP. Last week everything was fine. This week, on boot-up, I started getting msg "error in Windows Defender UI" which turned out to be the tip of an iceberg, and to cut a long (and probably irrlevant) discussion short, I ran a clean recovery back to factory condition from restore DVD. This seemed to work ok, in that all the issues went away. BUT.... I now have a problem whereby after c.10 minutes, the display seems to go into sleep mode even if I'm in the middle of doing something, like typing or mouse-clicking. At this point, I would expect to be able to restore the screen by a mouse click etc... but it doesn't respond. I therefore have no alternative but to power down and reboot every time this happens. I've checked my power settings and I'm using Vista defaults - with power, the screen isn't supposed to go to sleep until after 60 minutes. All the device drivers are up to date. When I reboot, the display comes up as normal for about 10 minutes, then dies again. |
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