XP and Screensaver. Mine has gone braindead

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Hi Braun,This tweak guide made me think of you today:Windows XP ACPI Tweak Guide - Reduxhttp://www.tweakersasylum.com/tapages.php?...ux/00000001.htmI know you said you tried something similar earlier and it didn't fix your problem, but since this was on topic to that discussion earlier, thought you'd be interested.(Note: not recommended for those who don't feel comfortable or don't know their system fairly well... Just a warning for those thinking to try this.)Take care, http://members.rogers.com/eelvish/elrondlogo.gifhttp://members.rogers.com/eelvish/flyurl.gif

[brucek 38]

Hi Elrond, I've seen a lot of talk about disabling ACPI on the TweakXP forums, although most I saw involved a re-install. This is a great article.One question- I gather that by creating an alternate h/w profile, if all goes 'south' when attempting to disable ACPI in the new profile, the original profile will offer the "same old' XP? I have an ACPI option in my BIOS, as I recall (ABit BD7II). I wonder how this factors in the above procedure?Thanks again for some good info, Elrond.Bruce.

[wsieffert 0]

I had a thought the other day when my kids left the "Sims" game up on one of the computers. It puts the game in a full screen mode and it doesn't let the screen saver or monitor shut-down work. I constantly yell at the kids about shutting off the game or the monitor if they are going to be gone for extended periods (do the same with the new HDTV that just got fixed, when they play the Nintendo on it).I was wondering if somehow, fs2002 set a bit somewhere and didn't reset the bit upon shutdown. FS2002 keeps the screen up full time, i.e., shuts screen saver off/monitor shutdown off.It's FM, and a pain to troubleshoot. I think I would have reformatted and reinstalled by this time.:-lol

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Hi Bruce,As long as both profiles were created before ACPI was disabled (the first step basically), yes the first would offer the "same old" ACPI configured XP. Just make sure you are logged in with the second, new profile before you disable ACPI... This second profile then end up being the non-ACPI config while leaving the first untouched.Like they suggest in the article, setting a restore point would still be advisable even with dual-profiles. With a specified restore point, no matter what went wrong (if the moon is in mis-alignment for instance :-)), booting into safe mode and restoring to that point would get you back up and running. Also a "must" recomendation from the article: make sure you have all possible drivers extracted to a folder on your hard-drive just in case the Standard PC profile doesn't auto-detect the previous installed ones.Take care,http://members.rogers.com/eelvish/elrondlogo.gifhttp://members.rogers.com/eelvish/flyurl.gif

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If the system is setup as ACPI, the screensaver wouldn't kick in with a 3D app active because the ACPI timer keeps getting reset. With ACPI disabled, a standard windows timer keeps track and isn't aware of any 3D apps running. This can be good and bad:Good because it allows screenblanking at all times.Bad because it may crash some 3D apps/games that aren't programmed to be screensaver aware.Basically, regardless of ACPI setting, your admonishment to your kids is the best medicine as it'll neither crash an app or stop the timer from kicking in :-).And I too would have clean reinstalled by now (wouldn't have formatted though). My tolerance level for continuing problems I can't track down is beyond minimal at times: usually my poor (and thankfully tolerant!) wife takes the brunt of those self-made frustrations stoically... Good thing I don't have kids as I think they'd be too easy of targets ("Ok, what did you do to my computer to break it so bad, SON??!!"). :-lolInteresting problem to discuss as long as its not me however... LOL!http://members.rogers.com/eelvish/elrondlogo.gifhttp://members.rogers.com/eelvish/flyurl.gif

[brucek 38]

Thanks Elrond.

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Bruce, Elrond, W. Sieffert...I am "afraid". :(Twin 60's. Too much stuff installed. Need...to...let....go, must..let..go!Yes...its time to format. Well not format. Elrond is absolutely correct in my most semi-humble of an opinion. You do not need to format. Just clean up. Prune...don't chop!OTOH, I've learned to live with the malady, as it really is a non-issue issue. It takes a long time to burn in a monitor. Ya' gotta kind of try to make it happen in my experience.Cheers,bt

[brucek 38]

Keep the blue side up, Braun! Good luck.Bruce.