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    LCD times out, does not come back

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Rosemarycane, Jul 11, 2007.

  1. Rosemarycane

    Rosemarycane Notebook Consultant

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    I have my LCD screen set to time out after 5 minutes. After 5 minutes the screen times out, but I am unable to get the screen to come back on by moving the mouse with the touch pad. I have a w3j btw. Does anyone else experience this? Are there any solutions besides pressing function f8?
     
    Rosemarycane, Jul 11, 2007
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    what do you have your hd shutdown and standby times set as?
     
    ejl, Jul 11, 2007
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  3. Rosemarycane

    Rosemarycane Notebook Consultant

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    HDD timer is set to never, and standby is 15 minutes.
     
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    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    This is usually a problem with the video driver. Try updating or otherwise changing it.

    The Fn+F7 is also quite a painless solution.
     
    E.B.E., Jul 12, 2007
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    did you install new video driver? We talked about it in another topic and the solution was to keep the driver from the asus cd driver.
     
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    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Absolutely, if you are using modded drivers, the first thing to do is revert to the CD stock version.
     
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    Rosemarycane Notebook Consultant

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    I am using the stock driver from the CD. Does this mean there is something wrong with my machine or is it a software problem?
     
    Rosemarycane, Jul 13, 2007
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    It's a software problem.

    Check support.asus.com maybe there are updated video drivers, try those first.

    Otherwise, you could go to modded drivers, but I wouldn't advise it for such a small problem. Unless it's a big problem for you, of course.
     
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  9. Rosemarycane

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    If I remove the atkacpi driver, it works fine. Could this mean a hardware problem?
     
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    No, it simply means we were wrong and it's not the video driver. :)

    Or we were partially wrong and it's the interplay between the ACPI and video drivers.

    I suggest install the latest ACPI and video drivers from support.asus.com and if it does the same afterwards, just forget about it... or set the monitor never to turn off.

    Don't worry, your W3J is ok. And a fine machine, at that. :) The fault is the cra__y programming skills from the ASUS programmers.

    BTW: do not run without an ACPI driver for long, your CPU will probably not speedstep, and a lot of other power saving features will be disabled. It's better to have this small bug than to have no ACPI driver.
     
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  11. koen1

    koen1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had a similar problem on my w3j.. fixed it by setting in power4gear that the videocard + hdd never timed out
     
    koen1, Jul 13, 2007
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