Win 7 standby issues

[Demo24]

I just recently built a new computer, last Friday, so now all my computers are on win7. However this is the first one to have a few bugs with it.

First of all, I have it set so a screen saver comes on at 10 min, then 5 min after that it is suppose to turn the monitor off. The problem is that this doesn't happen, and my monitor is just outputing black. This is rather annoying, and does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? I tried drivers already.

Secondly, it seems to take a very long time to go to sleep and then come out of sleep. I'm talking on about 30 secs to a minute for the screen to come back. I can nearly boot the machine from scratch in that time. Strange thing is that it doesn't appear to be hitting the harddrive much during this time, just sits there.

System info:
i5 750
Gigabye p55a-ud4p
4gb pc 1600
ATI 5770
Monitor: Dell u2410
OS: win7 Home premium 64 bit

 

[Engineer]

Go to advanced options under power settings and turn off "Hybrid Sleep". Edit: Nevermind, Hybrid Sleep will slow you down "going to sleep", not waking up.

Also, just curious..do you have the taskbar set to "Auto hide"? If so, turn off "Auto Hide the Taskbar" and see if it makes a difference?

Oh, and for the record....I can't get sleep to work worth a crap on Win 7.

 

[VirtualLarry]

That was one of the complaints about the 10.1 ATI drivers, that the monitor no longer goes to sleep, but instead just displays a black.

 

[Demo24]

That was one of the complaints about the 10.1 ATI drivers, that the monitor no longer goes to sleep, but instead just displays a black.

ahhh, that explains it. I had a feeling it had to do with these drivers. Don't really want to go find a previous version, so I guess I'll just live with it for now.

I did fix the sleep issue though. It finally stopped going into hybrid sleep, as for some reason it would do so immediately when going to 'sleep' instead of after a waiting period. Once the comp sleeps though the monitor does go into standby.