big problem: please advise

[The Dad Fisherman]

Try a different profile when you log in and see if it does it. also does the monitor maybe have a powersave feature.

[Raven]

but thinking back in my PC history
i've never had this problem...before
not to where it would shut off the monitor
and not be able to wake it up that is....

i'm leaning in the direction that its an XP feature
(that i simply hate )
but you might be correct on the monitor feature
and i know i'm not running the right drivers for it
because XP wouldn't autorun the CD they came on.

the monitor is an oldie but goodie from 1996
A 21 inch though...that still works great...

i'm backing up the drive's data right now , onto
a 320 gig drive , then it's gonna get formatted.

[Raven]

i finally found the friggan adjustment after many hours
of playing with several computers... yes it was on the
monitor itself ....i must have changed the setting accidentally
one day without realizing it .........is all i can say or think of...

live and learn i guess....and now with my $1250 monitor
working ever so sweetly again... it's time to drink beer