Windows Xp logon power saving mode issue

[abbase]

I had installed Windows Xp on my system. Now the problem is that when i turn on my system, it get started in the normal mode but after that it gets to the point where the large XP logo screen and has the yellow timing bar scrolling across. Pressing any power-button (or monitor button) doesn't help either and the only thing I can do is hold the Power-button to shut my computer down and reboot it. At this point the screen should change and one should be logged on to their desktop etc. However, my screen will change to the "Power Saving Mode" and go blank. So, can any one tell me that why i'm having Windows Xp logon power saving mode issue? Any one has any idea about it? Kindly help me out to resolve the above issue. Thanks.

[Devasis]

You have a problem with your CPU fan. Can you hear the fan spinning when your system is working. I think you video card just gives up at that point and you see a blank screen, get a used or old video card and try it see if that would fix your issue. If so need to clean the heatsink.

[Solomon]

It seems it is a motherboard battery problem. try this. It most likely is not the monitor which is in "power save mode", it is the computer itself.This is usually a graphics card problem, try reseating the card. The main difference between Standby and Hibernate is that the former stores the Desktop state on your PC's physical memory while the latter stores it on your hard disk.

[MrChris-]

There were many missing config files and somewhere down the line his graphics card decided to default to a spec the monitor cannot cope with. When you cannot get a computer out of "power save mode" by any other means, typically the cause is that the button-cell-type battery of your computer, which is located on the motherboard, is empty.

[Calvin K]

Typically this is much more drastic than just slowing the CPU and turning off the monitor. For instance, the disks are spun down and the system effectively shuts itself off. For that you need to click on Desktop --> Properties --> Settings --> Advanced --> Utility Manager --> Driver Mode Settings --> Under Driver Mode select Multimonitor option from the dropdown list.

[Lillebror]

The easy thing to do is restart you computer in safe mode and do a system restore before you had put sp2 on you computer. Tried entering BIOS also and couldn't get there either. He seems to recall changing something in the BIOS recently. Reset the motherboard jumper to clear the cmos and reset default bios values and try booting again.