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Screen Saver causing Reboot
Name: DirtyRed Date: January 15, 2000 at 23:07:45 Pacific
Comment:
Everytime I select a standard screensaver, my system reboots. Any suggestions, or is any else having this problem? Build 2195. Final OEM
Name: Craig Date: January 17, 2000 at 08:34:28 Pacific
Reply:
Umm. Turn the screen saver off, maybe?
Only wanting to be a bit of a smarta**, I firmly believe that screen savers in general are the work of the devil. I've have the problem you describe in Win98 as well.
I believe that the problem is that screen savers and the advance power management (APM) modes on most (newer) machines conflict. I have no screen saver running, but Win2K (or the APM itself) does shut off the screen after about 15 minutes of non-use.
This is on my desktop system, but I have the same problem under Win98 on my laptop. If I turn on a screen saver - even the one that just blanks the screen, I can't get the laptop to respond after the APM turns off the monitor.
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Response Number 2
Name: brent Date: February 3, 2000 at 07:52:27 Pacific
Reply:
Your screen saver is probably causing a app error and your system is set to reboot when encountering them. To keep the system from rebooting (if you care to debug the issue) go to MY COMPUTER|PROPERTIES ADVANCED tab, then click on STARTUP AND RECOVERY and clear the check box that says "automatically reboot" Best thing is to just not run the thing :)
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