how come my screen goes black after about 18 munutes of the screensaver being on ?
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Because you have enabled the "Turn Off Monitor" setting under the power saving settings.
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Double click on your desktop-\nMy Computer\nControl Panel\nAppearance and Themes\nDisplay\nClick on the Screensaver icon.\nChange the time to wait to however long you want.\n\nVoila!
738808
if using windows go to your display or monitor properties screen, and look for something that says refresh rate and turn it up untill the lines go away, if that doesnt work your monitor might be going bad
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if youre using microsoft right click anywhere on the background and click properties. then change the settings in the screensaver tab
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Go to My Computer->Control Panel->Display->Screen Saver.  If you want to, you can just turn them all off by choosing <None>.  But you may also choose to turn it to a different one, or Blank Screen.  "Blank Screen" is just that; it will go to black.  "None" means it will never turn off the page you are looking at, no matter how long you go away and leave it.  That's hard on the monitor.  That is, if you leave your monitor showing the same static display for a long time, you can burn it.  Then you have a ghost of the page when you go on to other things, and you shorten the life of your monitor.\n\nHowever, you may also find that there are other screen savers on there you didn't even know you had, because Windows generally comes with a variety of them.  Why not change around sometimes, but still give your monitor the saving?  Or even download some of the millions of free ones out there, and come to love your screen saver as much as I love mine.  It's from Scholastic Books, and has a lot of pictures from the Harry Potter series.  Very cool!
957449
try changing your refresh rate to stop that, sounds like you have the monitor plugged into a power strip so its not saving the settings
805056
is your screen going blank?or is it your screen saver coming on?if so you need to set your screen saver to come on a little less soon open your control panel click display and set your screen saver to a longer time or turn it off,it really isnt needed on the moniters we have now.
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hello anil. the solution is simple..\njust press ctrl+alt+up arrow.\nur screen will return to normal.
200630
download the current driver for your video card. if that doesn't work your monitor or video card might need replacement. Also try to degause your monitor if its not a plasma screen.
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If the refresh rate solution mentioned earlier doesn't work, check your screen's user manual and see if it has its own, built-in power saving feature. \n\nLCD screens are very suceptible to burn-in, so some models will turn themselves off if they don't sense enough change in the picture in a given time frame. You'd turn this feature off through the Menu button on your monitor, if it has it.\n\nThat said, your Windows power settings may also be set to turn your monitor off after a period of inactivity; this would happen even if the PC is performing some task, such as playing music, downloading, etc.; anything that doesn't involve input from the mouse-keyboard.\n\nYou can test this by striking any key on your keyboard when your screen is blank and the computer is running. If the screen comes back on, it's Windows turning the monitor off.\n\nTo stop that, go to Start --> Control Panel and choose Power Options. Under Turn Off Monitor, choose Never.\n\nAgain, be careful; LCD monitors do burn in, so you don't want to leave the same image up all the time or you will get "ghost" images.
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Go to http://www.dowload.com and check out the screensaver section.\n\ngood Luck
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no, it's not a screensaver problem, first uninstall the display driver, and then reinstall the display(graphics) driver, will solve the problem, if not then try the digos, is the monitor, might help.
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Same thing happened to me. If you see the screen in the beginning and then it turns off, it's because you changed the settings. The only thing I could do was reboot the hard drive with a fresh copy of XP and adjust the settings differently.
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The screen will usually do this if you have not been active on the computer, it's to conserve the screen and energy.  Right click on the screen, click properties on the pop-up, click screen saver, click setting and set turn of monitor to never.
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I can think of a couple reasons off hand. First, are you using an optical mouse/trackball?  If so, there could be some dust causing problems. Clean it just to be sure.\n\nDoes it do it at the same duration each time? I have a program, webshots, which centers my mouse everytime it changes my background picture, every 15 minutes.\nThere could be a program running in the background that updates, I've had a weather updater do the same thing before.\nAlso one of the older Wacom Table drivers caused this to happen.\n\nDo you have multiple monitors running with extended desktop? That could cause it to jump to where the 2 desktops would meet if it's not configured properly.\n\nHope this helped. I'd say it's probably a program that is running. You may want to try closing out all processes not required, see if it still happens then.\n\nFission
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2 possible reasons\n\na) If you are lucky: your graphic card drivers are messed up. All you need to do is reinstall your graphic card ( using its recovery cd or downloading it from its brand's website )\n\nb) If you are not lucky: your screen is dead. Leave your laptop off for some minutes and turn it back on. If it still is turned black you best take it to the first laptop shop.
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right click on a clear bit of desktop and then click on the screensaver tab - you can select your screen saver there.