At 08:03 AM 4/4/02 -0800, Richard Thomas wrote the following:

>I have a customer who sets his screen saver to 12 mins and then saves the
>changes. If he shuts off the computer and then turns it on later it defaults
>to 1 min. Is there something that can be done to fix this?...rich

Check CMOS BIOS setup. Enter the Power Management menu. You should find some
set of global or master settings that control all the other power management
function. See below for a sample selection from a Award BIOS screen.

ROM PCI/ISA BIOS
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP
AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.

ACPI Funtion         : Enabled
Power Management     : User Define
PM Control by APM    : Yes
Video Off Method     : DPMS
Video Off After      : NA
MODEM Use IRQ        : NA
Standby Mode         : Disabled
Suspend Mode         : Disabled
HDD Power Down       : Disabled
VGA Active Monitor   : Disabled
...

You want to leave power management alone (enabled or user defined) but
disable the standby/suspend timing parameters so the BIOS does not
automatically turn off parts of the system after a period of time. In this
way, the Windows power management functions will control.

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Gerry Boyd
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