Windows 10: Monitor goes to sleep after 10 minutes -- And during movies.

Running a fairly fresh install of Windows 10. (not upgrade).
Was having no problems. I really like Windows 10 so far.
I upgraded my graphics card from gtx650 to a gtx960
this is when a minor problem began.

The monitor turns off after 10 minutes, even if I have 'NEVER' selected in power options.
The monitor turns off after 10 minutes when VLC player is in full screen for watching movies.
The monitor turns off after 10 minutes when streaming / flash video in full screen.

What I supposed is some old setting got stuck in the registry. So I just reinstalled the Video driver again. I've checked the BIOS to see if there was any power options causing this and I don't see any. I'm pretty sure it's something in the registry because I have seen similar problems about this....

But if anyone can help!! Please let me know.

:)

 

PC goes into sleep mode

I am not entirely sure that this is an issue related to my power option choices, but my PC goes into sleep mode (I think) after having not actively used the PC for 10 consequtive minutes.

I have multiple screens (1 monitor, 1 TV). So when I set my PC to play a movie on my TV, the PC "thinks it's idle", so after having watched the movie for 10 minutes, my monitor goes into "Power Save" mode. This also affects my TV screen as it goes black
like the monitor, which is why I think this can only be related to the Power Option choice.

I am using the Balanced setting right now, but have set the "Turn off the display" to 30 minutes and the "Put the computer to sleep" to 30 minutes.

Regardless of which Power Option I pick, the PC always goes into sleep mode after 10 minutes.

I simply cannot figure this problem out since no matter what I do, nothing changes the 10 minutes sleep mode effect.

Any help/advice here?

Thanks!

 

WIndows 10 pc goes to sleep when connected to TV

Hey there

My PC runs on Windows 10 and I have disabled Hibernate and Hybrid sleep. I have only set it to sleep after 45' of inactivity (my monitor goes off after 15', but I have altered the settings so I can still listen to music etc with my monitor off).

But I have also connected the pc to my TV and the problem is this:

when I set the TV to the HDMI channel (so I wan watch a movie, listen to some music etc from my pc), if my pc stays inactive for a couple of minutes, it goes straight to sleep. The pc monitor may even be still on, but it will sleep anyway just because the movie/song
stopped!

This is a bit frustrating. I have updated all my drivers and run troubleshooters, but can't find anything.

Thank you in advance!

Moved from: Windows / Windows 10 / Sleep and Power on/off

 

Follow Power Plan Settings - Change in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

First check in the Multimedia settings. Does it look like this?

If not, adjust the settings.

If yes, look at the Display (above multimedia settings). Set turn off display to "never".

See how it goes. Let us know.

 

Applied those settings.
Monitor went to sleep after 10 minutes during Streamed Video *Sad

Power option for display: Set to Never *Sad


My setting here.

 

Seems like I am having a similar problem to what people have experienced here;
Monitor turns off after 2 minutes of inactivity - Page 5 - Windows 10 Forums

One guys monitor on that thread ^^^ Always turned off after 5 minutes no matter what his power settings were.

I hate to Re-install and waste all these writes to my SSD. This is literally the ONLY problem I've ever had with windows 10. I hope there is some Windows 10 Savant out there who can fix this...

 

When you click 'Change settings that are currently unavailable', do you see any setting that becomes available that may cause this?

 

might not be a true fix but what if you would say 100000 minutes? At least you would be able to watch your movies for the time being ?

 

No nothing that I see. Checked Bios too. Nothing there or obscure.

Also I set Set the screen to turn off after 3 hours. Didn't work. Still shuts off after 10 minutes.
Another thing to note is the screen saver doesn't work at all. I can put the screen saver to 1 minute... and it never comes on.

Simply upgrading my graphics card caused this. Oh well. I will just reformat. Though I have like 200 GB of video games I will have to reinstall onto my fresh new SSD =/

 

Did a Systems File Check...
Fixed some files but... didn't fix the screen saver / power options.

Found this thread here too... many people experiencing the same issue.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...86b2407?page=1

 

Today I ran a scan with Malware Bytes (free trial version).
The scan found a few trojan/backdoor/problem items. Not much. But one was like identified as a "not recommended windows setting". That setting I believe was one of these registry items below.
After the scan and reboot It fixed the problem, after removing the following;

Processes: 2
Trojan.Injector, C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WinRAR\nwtray.exe, 6284, Delete-on-Reboot, [a94d9b12a9f00c2a8ddf60c182808b75]
Backdoor.Agent.BDB, C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WinRAR\nvvswc.exe, 6964, Delete-on-Reboot, [cc2a3d7067321323e7ba60bf7b875da3]


Modules: 0
(No malicious items detected)


Registry Keys: 0
(No malicious items detected)


Registry Values: 1
PUM.Optional.UserWLoad, HKU\S-1-5-21-1558198759-2112101247-383713384-1001\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\WINDOWS|Load, C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WinRAR\nvvswc.exe, Quarantined, [20d6c0edbedbb97dd147275557adee12]


Registry Data: 1
Backdoor.Agent.BDB, HKU\S-1-5-21-1558198759-2112101247-383713384-1001\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\WINDOWS|Load, C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WinRAR\nvvswc.exe, Good: (), Bad: (C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WinRAR\nvvswc.exe),Replaced,[cc2a3d7067321323e7ba60bf7b875da3]


Folders: 0
(No malicious items detected)


Files: 2
Trojan.Injector, C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WinRAR\nwtray.exe, Delete-on-Reboot, [a94d9b12a9f00c2a8ddf60c182808b75],
Backdoor.Agent.BDB, C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WinRAR\nvvswc.exe, Delete-on-Reboot, [cc2a3d7067321323e7ba60bf7b875da3],


Physical Sectors: 0
(No malicious items detected)




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Good to hear, and you removed malware to boot, I was going to ask if the monitor itself may have had a timeout setting.

If that's the case, please set to solved ...

 

Lesson: If you do piracy and use software activation hacks, you are calling your problem yourself.