Power settings all of a sudden disabled

Hi,
About a couple of weeks ago, I went to change my power settings, so my Moniotr wouldn't turn off and , There are no schemes available, all the setting drop-downs are disabled! Anyone know what might have happened? I had changed the settings a couple of weeks before this so I know they were working recently.

Thanks,
Friar

 

Is this a laptop or a desktop?? Well, regardless, it's probably the ACPI drivers which are usually part of the chipset software. ACPI controls power saving features. Check your device manager for any yellow question marks under system devices.... If nothing else, try a system restore to right before the problem happened. Also, check your system BIOS and see what the power settings are in there: it could be that the power saving options have been disabled.....

hopperdave2000

 

hopperdave,
well, I was hoping to avoid a system restore, but it looks like that will be my option. There are no question marks anywhere, and the bios is set correctly.


anyone else have any ideas how this might have happened? there should be no reason for this to occur.

Thanks,
friar

 

If this is a laptop, then try this free software, notebook hardware controller. just google for it. you may be asked to install dotnetfx also. it is a great software. but if your main concern is not to turn off your computer monitor after a certain time, then i am sorry. but stii, try this software.

 

No, but thanks, it is not a laptop, it is a desktop computer