Power Options section greyed out in Display Properties

I've had three different nVidia cards in this machine and for the past
6 months the Power Schemes sections have been greyed out in the
Power Options, Screen Saver, Display Properties box. The 21" Dell
990 monitor used to go into `Turn off monitor´ energy saving mode
after 10 mins. I really need this feature to work again with the hot
weather coming around. Any suggestions on how to re-enable?
Running 32MB Riva TNT2 card with 44.03 drives.


-G

'g'-G' wrote:
I've had three different nVidia cards in this machine and for the past
6 months the Power Schemes sections have been greyed out in the
Power Options, Screen Saver, Display Properties box. The 21" Dell
990 monitor used to go into `Turn off monitor´ energy saving mode
after 10 mins. I really need this feature to work again with the hot
weather coming around. Any suggestions on how to re-enable?
Running 32MB Riva TNT2 card with 44.03 drives.
_____

As long as we're taking a walk down memory lane, why not throw in the name
of the operating system? I don't know if I can remember that far back, but
the function you are describing has nothing to do with the display adapter
or its drivers, and everything to do with the monitor and operating system.

Phil Weldon

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I've had three different nVidia cards in this machine and for the past
6 months the Power Schemes sections have been greyed out in the
Power Options, Screen Saver, Display Properties box. The 21" Dell
990 monitor used to go into `Turn off monitor´ energy saving mode
after 10 mins. I really need this feature to work again with the hot
weather coming around. Any suggestions on how to re-enable?
Running 32MB Riva TNT2 card with 44.03 drives.


-G

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:58:08 -0400, "Phil Weldon"
brought the following to our attention:

'g'-G' wrote:
I've had three different nVidia cards in this machine and for the past
6 months the Power Schemes sections have been greyed out in the
Power Options, Screen Saver, Display Properties box. The 21" Dell
990 monitor used to go into `Turn off monitor´ energy saving mode
after 10 mins. I really need this feature to work again with the hot
weather coming around. Any suggestions on how to re-enable?
Running 32MB Riva TNT2 card with 44.03 drives.
_____

As long as we're taking a walk down memory lane, why not throw in the name
of the operating system? I don't know if I can remember that far back, but
the function you are describing has nothing to do with the display adapter
or its drivers, and everything to do with the monitor and operating system.

Phil Weldon

Yes of course.. forgot to mention that the OS is Win 2000 Wkstn. The
Power Options, Power Schemes, "Turn off monitor", "Turns off hard
disks", etc. fields are all greyed out (four all together) and the box
heading for these is labelled "Unknown".

The energy saver system worked fine before, but is disabled now.
I thought it could be a system BIOS setting, so may post in the Dell
forum. Box is Dell 610 Workstation. Please, no jokes or remarks
about my trusty old SCSI machine. )

-G

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I've had three different nVidia cards in this machine and for the past
6 months the Power Schemes sections have been greyed out in the
Power Options, Screen Saver, Display Properties box. The 21" Dell
990 monitor used to go into `Turn off monitor´ energy saving mode
after 10 mins. I really need this feature to work again with the hot
weather coming around. Any suggestions on how to re-enable?
Running 32MB Riva TNT2 card with 44.03 drives.


-G

wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:58:08 -0400, "Phil Weldon"
brought the following to our attention:

'g'-G' wrote:
I've had three different nVidia cards in this machine and for the past
6 months the Power Schemes sections have been greyed out in the
Power Options, Screen Saver, Display Properties box. The 21" Dell
990 monitor used to go into `Turn off monitor´ energy saving mode
after 10 mins. I really need this feature to work again with the hot
weather coming around. Any suggestions on how to re-enable?
Running 32MB Riva TNT2 card with 44.03 drives.
_____

As long as we're taking a walk down memory lane, why not throw in the name
of the operating system? I don't know if I can remember that far back, but
the function you are describing has nothing to do with the display adapter
or its drivers, and everything to do with the monitor and operating system.

Phil Weldon

Yes of course.. forgot to mention that the OS is Win 2000 Wkstn. The
Power Options, Power Schemes, "Turn off monitor", "Turns off hard
disks", etc. fields are all greyed out (four all together) and the box
heading for these is labelled "Unknown".

The energy saver system worked fine before, but is disabled now.
I thought it could be a system BIOS setting, so may post in the Dell
forum. Box is Dell 610 Workstation. Please, no jokes or remarks
about my trusty old SCSI machine. )

-G


Go into the BIOS and look for the page devoted to power management and
find the entries that refer to your monitors PM: such as DPMS, or
V+SYNC, or BLANK.

In Win2K, make sure you have your monitor driver loaded and active for
the primary monitor. Check device manager to make sure ACPI is loaded
and not APM, and no other drivers are disabled or inoperative.

When you change your video card/drivers you must reload your monitor
drivers, or strange things can happen.

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:54:21 -0400, "Mr.E Solved!"
brought the following to our attention:

wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:58:08 -0400, "Phil Weldon"
brought the following to our attention:

'g'-G' wrote:
I've had three different nVidia cards in this machine and for the past
6 months the Power Schemes sections have been greyed out in the
Power Options, Screen Saver, Display Properties box. The 21" Dell
990 monitor used to go into `Turn off monitor´ energy saving mode
after 10 mins. I really need this feature to work again with the hot
weather coming around. Any suggestions on how to re-enable?
Running 32MB Riva TNT2 card with 44.03 drives.
_____

Yes of course.. forgot to mention that the OS is Win 2000 Wkstn. The
Power Options, Power Schemes, "Turn off monitor", "Turns off hard
disks", etc. fields are all greyed out (four all together) and the box
heading for these is labelled "Unknown".

The energy saver system worked fine before, but is disabled now.
I thought it could be a system BIOS setting, so may post in the Dell
forum. Box is Dell 610 Workstation. Please, no jokes or remarks
about my trusty old SCSI machine. )

-G


Go into the BIOS and look for the page devoted to power management and
find the entries that refer to your monitors PM: such as DPMS, or
V+SYNC, or BLANK.

Will go into the BIOS on next reboot.

In Win2K, make sure you have your monitor driver loaded and active for
the primary monitor. Check device manager to make sure ACPI is loaded
and not APM, and no other drivers are disabled or inoperative.

Have a utility called http://www.whatsrunning.net/ and ACPI is not
listed in any of the Processes, Services, Modules, or Drivers. Don't
see APM either.

When you change your video card/drivers you must reload your monitor
drivers, or strange things can happen.

The diver displaying name Dell P990 is loaded, which is "monitor8.inf"
as well. Where in Device Manager do I look for ACPI?

-G

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Will go into the BIOS on next reboot.

Any luck?

Have a utility called http://www.whatsrunning.net/ and ACPI is not
listed in any of the Processes, Services, Modules, or Drivers. Don't
see APM either.


The diver displaying name Dell P990 is loaded, which is "monitor8.inf"
as well. Where in Device Manager do I look for ACPI?


ACPI (or APM...two different methods of managing powers states in your
PC) It is a parent driver of your system, at the very top of the list,
under Computer, in device manager, most all internal devices are
children of it.

That your monitor drivers are installed is good, it makes reloading them
easier...reinstall them!

When you have all the pieces in place: functioning ACPI settings (best
guess..it is SCSI based), a prior known good state, present device
drivers, you should be back in business.