It's possible that your hard drives are set to shut off after x amount of
minutes.  to change this setting, go into your display settings either in
control panel or by right clicking anywhere on your desktop and selecting
properties.  Go the the screensaver tab and you will see the power settings
button at the bottom.  Select the button and you will see an option to turn
off hard drives.  Hit the drop down arrow and change this option to "never"
Good Luck
Bill ADes
Doctor Data Technology Solutions, inc.
Brooklyn, NY

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arnie Scacchitti" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:11 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Blan Screen


> I have an older PC, that I'm trying to get working properly for a young
friend.
> Whenever the screen saver comes on for a long period of time, the monitor
goes black and the
> sytem locks up. I have a 233MHZ processor. 64MB ram/ 4gig free on my HD.
> I've recently had 96mB ram, but removed 32, to see if the problem is being
caused by bad memory.
> I'm running Win98. I've swapped diff Screen savers and still the same
results.
> I also put in a new Video card.
> Any one have any ideas.
> Arnie
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