Windows 10: Monitor/display will not turn off

Just an update on my particular problem of the monitor not turning off and the screen saver not running.

My display adaptor is an Intel integrated unit and I downloaded and ran the Intel Driver Update Utility. After a scan this suggested a driver update. I allowed that to install and my two main issues were resolved with that. That is that the system was now able to control the monitor and the screen saver ran without issues.

I had other issues but these were all addressed when Build 10565 arrived. At the moment there is peace in the camp and as far as I know all is working well.

Dave

 

The Fall update (clean install), and/or the latest AMD driver (from Windows Update, not a manual install from AMD's website) have finally fixed this issue for me. Monitor will now turn off (both manually and automatically) and stay off.

The relevant Microsoft driver has received a change:

Old: HID-compliant game controller, 10.0.10240.16384, Microsoft, 6/21/2006
Now: HID-compliant game controller, 10.0.10586.0, Microsoft, 6/21/2006

 

Very nice, i just downloaded the Windows 10 update over top of my current install and it worked as well, same driver versions as listed above.

 

I got the windows updates over the weekend and I can now leave my joystick plugged in and the screen saver starts up and the monitors shut off like they should. *Thumbs

 

I have searched everywhere to find a solution to the problem of the monitor not shutting down as set in display properties
I did the following and it is now working corrently
1. Open msconfig
2. Check to see if it is set to selective startup
3. If it is set it to normal startup then restart the PC
All should now be working it did the trick for my PC

 

I have read everything ever written on ways to turn the screen off and on in Windows 10 and I am sad to say that none of them work. The screen coming on after an automatic off (as set on the Power panel) has been associated with a Black Screen in my experience so I would rather turn the screen off/on manually (on my old setup I could turn the power off at the display itself but I can't on the all inclusive one-piece computer/monitor of the DELL XPS 2720). The Closest I have come to this is to use the control panel to "preview" a screen saver but that is clumsy in both turning the screen off and turning it on again. I have tried the programs that are alleged to turn off the screen and they do not work. There must be SOME way to do this obvious operation as there used to be in earlier Windows!

 

That was it for me! Thanks so much!

 

Thanks for the suggestions AmigaRoots and Ronwaz - but download and run the special program described in the replies does not work on Windows10 nor does resetting the startup since for me the purpose of the exercise is to avoid the auto-screen-off followed by the auto-screen-on since that caused my system crash before. (and I am not the only one who got a black screen after an auto screen off-on -- check the Forums under Black Screen)

 

Hey guys,
i was having the same problem, and i found my fix... turns out i was using slideshow for my background as well as lock screen...

turned that off on both, and POOF now the screen sleeps again!

 

Thanks, but neither of these works for me -- I don't have a background slideshow nor do I lock my screen. The best have been able to do so far is preview the blank screen saver (from WINDOWS-X choose SCREEN SAVER => preview) which makes it easy set the screen to on or off manually but that's not the same as preventing the auto on and auto off of the screen which I was hoping to do to prevent the Black Screen problem associated with that automatic event.

 

Just because it was not mentioned here, I have solved my problem and the solution was not posted anywhere. My issue was with a programme that prevented the monitor from turning off. It's DS4Windows. The tool that allows you to use your PlayStation controller with Windows over bluetooth. You can't leave that tool just on, you have to hit "Stop" when you're done.

 

I tried many solutions posted on TenForums which did not work on my Windows 10. A promising one was LCD.exe (found by googling "turn off LCD.exe"). It worked fine for a while and created a very dark screen, but then occasionally would not resume without a cold power-off reboot. What finally worked is to set the Screensaver to "blank" and create a desktop shortcut to C:\Windows\System32\scrnsave.scr.

 

My problem is the very opposite, my monitor allways goes blank when the computer is innactive for 5 minutes, and i can't get it to stop doing that, messed in the configs in the monitor benq2430xt, changed to never goes OFF

In windows 10 i did the same thing in two different places(power management and monitor options) and it didn't help.

 

Still no fix, I presume? I'm having the same issue. I'm using three monitors and often leave my desk for a while just to come back and monitors are still on...it's driving me nuts.

Edit: Closed out Google Chrome and my Corsair program and now it's working just fine.

 

Hi everyone, same problem here upgrading from win7 to win10

in my case at the extabilished time the ""shutdown procedure"" of the monitor starts correctly, the display show me for a second "no signal" that is correct (the same in win7 that worked fine) and then just a millisecond after the monitor don't turn off but it seems that detects immediately a signal from hdmi input and is stays turned on

my video setup.. sapphire amd radeon R9 380 dual-x and asus vn247h monitor

i don't have usb joypad or similar plugged in

*cry