Goes into sleep mode even though I have "Put computer to sleep

Lots of good ideas.

I don't know why I didn't try and manually put it into sleep or hibernate mode. So I tried that first. Actually, it went in and back out of sleep mode and hibernate without any problems. So then what? I figured it must be a hardware problem with the video card. I was able to get a working driver from Nvidea and that didn't work either. It would still go into this blank state.

I did notice one other thing accidentally. I was at the point where I was like the heck with Vista for now and put in my XP disk, and noticed that, even though I couldn't see anything on the screen(monitor was on, but no output comming from video card), auto run kicked. So my computer wasn't asleap or in hibernate, I just wasn't getting any output to the monitor. Weird...

I guess I could try using the onboard video from my motherboard and see what happens, although that isn't much of a solution....I loaded up XP to see if I had this same problem(which I didn't). So I know it's not a flat out hardware issue, but proably either be Vista or a driver problem.

"Raven Mill" wrote:

Not much help I know but I had a similar issue with vista when the default MS drivers were installed. I downloaded the vista drivers off NVIDIA's website and the problems was solved. So it could still be a graphics driver problem.Neil

"loopist"

The problem I have, even in XP is that, unless I go in and change the color correction settings to something and then back to none, I can't watch videos of any kind. I can hear the sound, and I know it's PLAYING, but the video is black. Anyone have any ideas on that one? It works fine once I go in and change the color correction back and forth. It's a dual 7600GTcoSC from eVGA in SLI mode on XP...

"loopist"