aargh! after all this time, I am still having trouble..

with the monitor turning off in 5 minutes, no matter what I do in the power plan settings screens for all 3 power profiles. I save them as "never" and go back in a moment later and they are back to 5 minutes, 15 minutes, etc. been trying to fix this for MONTHS! Does ANYONE know what the deal is with the s/w load on a Sager 8130, that would cause this? never had another windows machine forget it's display timeout setting

 

I dont have an exact fix but maybe try making sure you're account is an Administrator. Try creating a new user account and see if it works on that one?

 

I actually had that same problem on my laptop (Dell Studio XPS). I don't know what was doing it but I could never get the settings to work. Though after I reinstalled Windows it worked just fine again. So my guess it was some stupid registry error causing it to not work. Have you considered reinstalling Windows?

 

Can you right click the hot key driver program in task bar task area (a tiny laptop icon), and select a power profile there, then change the windows profile once again?

Then next thing is to uninstall the hot key driver and see how it works.

If it’s still doing it could be video driver, try different version, if still no good, maybe reinstall windows or RMA.

 

I would suggest to set to default settings all power plans through command prompt. Google it how.

 

thanks guys. yesterday was the first day I've got the settings to stick and I can't figure out WHY they stuck, because I go through all the same settings all the time to try to make it behave. I can't really see what's different about what I did. crazy stuff!

James, thx, I'll google about the command prompt thing and see what comes up.