monitor keeps going to sleep

[leo5111]

i turned off screensaver and power options are set to turn monitor off never but like every 5 to 10 minutes or so i come back to screen sleeping i press button desktops right there but i dont know whats making it go to sleep

[Husse]

There is a reason I added Forum rules in red on every forum - please read the link
You did not even tell us which version you use

[leo5111]

oh im sorry, , im on linux mint 8 helena main edition, graphics card is a nvidea 9800gt, motherboard is a abit ip35 pro . sorry

[Husse]

I have a few reports of similar behavior in Helena and I'll add this to the list
Frankly it's bugging me - I can't get to grips with it if you have set everything for screensavers and power saving not to do anything
There may be some setting in BIOS though, check that

[leo5111]

nothing in bios i could see to change that might help

[celticchrys]

Hello there,
I am a new Linux Mint user, and I've the same problem(haven't seen it in Ubuntu before). I am using Linux Mint 8 Helena, Main Edition. I have turned off all power saving/sleeping features, but the screen still goes to sleep instead of running the screensaver. This happens no matter which power options or screensaver I select. I am on an NVidia graphics card running the recommended restricted driver(NVidia version 185). This computer is a Dell XPS Gen 4. The Processor is: Pentium 4 Prescott DT, 3.4GHZ, 1 MEGB 800FSB, SKT-T.
Any other information that could be of help?
-Chrys
Not sure if it will help, but here is the result of lspci, since the newbie rules say to include it:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82925X/XE Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82925X/XE PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV41.1 [GeForce 6800] (rev a2)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
04:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
04:01.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04)
04:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 61)
04:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

[Husse]

I think a solution or at least workaround is found in this topic (towards the end)

[leo5111]

funny thing is i formatted turned off hibernation, screensaver etc this time its not doing it