Screen saver (energy *) kills modem connection?? HELP!
Kyle Grieser
I've noticed that I cannot stay on w/ modem connections for very long
if idle. Recently I noticed that when the monitor turns back on after
moving mouse, etc, my modem will be disconnected! What has this to do
with my monitor or screen saver???
If anyone really understands this and can help me, please email your
answer to y...@sequent.com. I would greatly appreciate this.
-yuf
Robert Hodges
Kyle,
technically, they have nothing to do with each other. Unless there is
something seriously wrong with one of your drivers or internal code that's
abnormal this should not ever happen. But, a question does come to mind.
Is it possible that your screensaver timer, and your ISP/Network
provider's idle time out are occuring at close to the same time? You could
test this by setting your screensaver timer to something like one (1)
minute.. and let it activate a number of times and see when your modem
disconnects.. if it's after X number of times (approxiamately the same as
you have now) it sounds like it could be a provider timeout (call them and
see if they have one set on their accounts :).
Robert Hodges
rho...@ipass.net
Kyle Grieser <y...@sequent.com> wrote in article
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Quoth Kyle Grieser:
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> Recently I noticed that when the monitor turns back on after
> moving mouse, etc, my modem will be disconnected! What has
> this to do with my monitor or screen saver???
When your computer goes into energy-saving mode, it is probably
powering down other things besides your monitor. I know that on
my laptop the PCMCIA cards are powered down as well (which,
naturally enough, will disconnect the modem (PC card) if it
happened to be online when suspending). I also observed when I
had Win95 on the laptop that if I suspended the system, the modem
would actually stay connected until I resumed the system, at which
time the PC slots were re-initialized (basically cycling the power
to the cards, which had the same result as above).
I _think_ you can set up energy star screen savers to only put the
monitor into low-power mode (i.e., keep the rest of the system
running normally, thus preventing the modem from resetting). I
think that there are check boxes stating whether your motherboard/
bus/whatever and/or monitor are Energy Star compliant; make sure
that only the monitor option is checked.
Tim Janssen
> I've noticed that I cannot stay on w/ modem connections for very long
> if idle. Recently I noticed that when the monitor turns back on after
> moving mouse, etc, my modem will be disconnected! What has this to do
> with my monitor or screen saver???
After about 20 minutes of idle time on the Internet Explorer notices and
will prompt you if you want to disconnect and will countdown 30 seconds if
you don't press a key IE will disconnect. I thought Energy * only affected
the monitor.
Richard Baldwin
In article <5ctakn$1...@scel.sequent.com>, Kyle Grieser <y...@sequent.com>
writes
>
>I've noticed that I cannot stay on w/ modem connections for very long
>if idle. Recently I noticed that when the monitor turns back on after
>moving mouse, etc, my modem will be disconnected! What has this to do
>with my monitor or screen saver???
>
>answer to y...@sequent.com. I would greatly appreciate this.
>
>-yuf
time as when your screen goes blank and you push the mouse to light it
up again. Other causes could be ...
Your monitor comes on with a real thump and spikes you modems supply or
line.
You have a fancy desktop which takes some effort to redraw - whilst this
happens you lose characters and the connection is dropped.
Your mouse shares the same IRQ as the modem - you should get problems
before this.
Hope this helps,
--
Richard Baldwin