usually when my computer goes into standby, the monitor goes black, the system and CPU FANS turn off and the power button flashes. it goes back to normal with a mouse click. normal stuff.

but for the last few days when my computer goes into standby, the monitor goes black and what not, but the fans are still going and i can hear the CPU RUNNING. the power button turns off completely along with the monitor....the monitor/power button turns back on when i click the mouse.

i tried fooling around with the Display properties>power option properties...as of right now the options are set to:

Power Schemes: Home/Office Desk
Turn off monitor: After 20 mins
Turn off Hard Disks: Never
System Stand by: After 20 mins

i do not have hibernation enabled.


so did i somehow turn a setting on/off somewhere?

Have you checked all th epower settings in the BIOS > >i checked the power settings, its been a few days and still nothing.I wonder if a BIOS update might help 

Alan <><  If it's a laptop the fans may be running until the machine is cooled off.
Or you may have a background program running such as an Anti virus scan...Hi I had exactly the same problem, the Monitor wouldn't wake up and it was driving me nuts!

A 'Computer Expert' told me I needed to buy my a new monitor and or a new video card but I fortunately kept the first monitor that I ever bought and also had a spare video card from an old computer.

It still didn't make any difference as the monitor dropped back to standby every time and I couldn't even get into the bios.

It got to the stage when I was thinking there may be a fault on the Motherboard as I had left the computer plugged in during a lightning strike and contemplated buying a WHOLE new system.

I thought I had tried every trick in the book and almost gave up hope but having checked every connection on every thing plugged in and swapped different pieces of hardware I suddenly found the solution.

A faulty plug on my keyboard extension!!!!!!

As SOON as I plugged the keyboard back in without the extension WIRE, everything just worked perfectly after that.

Also before all this happened I noticed that the colours on my monitor had a blue tinge but after sorting the keyboard out this annoying problem went away.

Hope this helps