Media Player Shifts at Power Saving mode

[CheckMeNot]

hi guy's........

Generally when I watch a movie that I download from the internet, and when i play it; during scrolling it in a forward mode in media player.
suddenly the display of my player turns black and a message popup appears: digital power saving mode.
I press alt + F4 or go into task manager, but nothing happens......

so i have no option except but to go for restart!!!

It also happened to me in other media player such as vlc program, so I am sure that it's not because of any media player error.
I also thought that it was a codec issue, so I installed few codec packs, but the problem still remains same.

I have also disabled screen saver but nothing helps for the problem............

Please help me with this problem.........

[Solomon]

try this one:

It sounds like you may have blown a capacitor inside of the monitor itself. It is a fairly easy fix.....Take it apart and look for a capacitor that is bulged on the backside. Then replace with exact cap. Problem fixed. This is a common problem as manufacturing. are using cheaper and cheaper components.

[MrChris-]

After disconnecting the power to the PC, we dusted and vacuumed the inside. It was VERY dusty. We removed the memory cards and then reinserted them. Then I noticed that the monitor had been plugged into the regular monitor jack in the back of the PC, although we had a video card installed and it should have been plugged in there. We plugged the monitor into the video card and it works fine now.

i just wiped my hard drive and re did windows and was updating my windows online when my screen went black i moved the mouse but nothing i pushed a button on the monitor and it said monitor in power save mode activate pc what i did to get it to work is opened my CD drive and my screen came back on hope it might help someone

[Calvin K]

Check your video card as not been loosened while your were messing about with the hard disk. I is very easy to loosen it with a knock.

The monitor will only go into power saving mode on a signal form the video card or the complete absence of any signal from the video card. Try unplugging the cable from the video card. You will probably get a "Cable Disconnected" message which indicates the monitor is working fine.

[Lillebror]

I had a similar problem with my monitor after I first installed FC5. My monitor would power down for no apparent reason after 10min. It took me a while to figure it out.
I just added the command "xset -dpms" to startup programs and it's fine now.

SYSTEM>PREFERENCES>More PREFERENCES>SESSIONS>STARTUP Tab and add "xset -dpms".