Windows 10: Laptop locks after 30 seconds when plugged into a monitor

I will literally give gold to anyone who can solve this problem, it's so annoying and no one's been able to solve it yet.

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad and it's running Windows 10 Pro.

For some reason, when it's plugged into a monitor, after 30 seconds of inactivity my screen suddenly dims and locks (so if I'm reading an email or watching a video or something my computer will just lock itself if I don't get to the mouse in time). It doesn't happen if it's not plugged into the monitor.

I have tried changing pretty much every setting in Settings / Control Panel and changing values in the Registry Editor, and I've tried the popular solutions on Google, but nothing seems to work.

PLEASE. HELP.

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Hi Raffaele,

For us to sort out this problem with your dual monitors, we'd like to gather more information about what happened so we can address the issue appropriately. Below are a few questions we'd like to ask:

• Does the monitor on the laptop work if you disconnect the other monitor?
• Is the second monitor connected to the laptop using a DVI, HDMI, or DisplayPort cable?

While waiting for your feedback, we suggest that you disconnect the second monitor from the laptop and check if its own monitor is working. If not, restart the laptop and check again.

Update us with the result.

Regards.