Dean -

Since it's happening on both PCs a hardware or other major fault seems
unlikely, it's almost certainly a setting.

Try checking your Power settings (in Control Panel, go to "Display", then
in the tab "Screen Saver" click on the "Power" button in the 'monitor
power' section. See what's set in the section "Power Schemes". This section
is where you specify after how minutes of inactivity the PC should go a)
turn on the screen saver b) go into standby and c) hibernate. Under "system
hibernates" it should read "never" - if it doesn't, change it.

Hope this work. Cheers -

         = Cheeta Gauba    [log in to unmask]


At 07:46 PM 9/6/2004 -0500, Dean Kukral wrote:
>About two weeks ago both my wife's computer and mine started experiencing a
>black screen of death.   The screen goes black, with sometimes the monitor
>in a low power state (not receiving a signal), and all keyboard response
>fails.  A hard reset is necessary to get going again.
>
>These computers have been stable with no hardware changes for about a year.
>I run XP Pro and she uses XP.  They are networked together via mb
>connections using a cable.  (Linked to a DirecWay satellite high-speed modem
>through a usb port on my computer.)
>
>The only software changes that we both have made are updates to NAV, SpyBot,
>and Windows (this was before SP2, using the online MS updater).
>
>Is there a known virus that produces this result, or does anybody know of a
>known problem with one of the Windows updates that might cause this problem?
>
>TIA
>
>Dean Kukral

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