DonJudd

Very interesting suggestion. I just checked. The Win98 computer that I am having the most problem with (my wife's) does have a Logitech 3-button mouse and the driver is Ver 19.79.24.0 (1987-2003); my own old Win98 computer also has a Logitech 3 button mouse and the driver is Ver 8.32a (1991-1999). The problem occurs on both computers but is more prevalent on my wife's. I do like the Logitech mice and particularly the middle button that I use for double click so I hesitate to get rid of them. Perhaps a word to Logitech might be in order. I'll keep investigating.

Thanks for the tips but so far nothing has worked completely. However, I have discovered a new wrinkle. If the monitor remains ON, I open the Screensaver window and select the Power Management tab. If the shut down time is set to 10 minutes, I change it to 15 minutes and select OK to take me out of that window. Then I open the same window again and change the time back to 10 minutes. The monitor then shuts down after 10 minutes. I have also discovered that the problem seems to occur mainly after I reboot the computer. In otherwords, after a reboot, the monitor stays ON unless I go through the procedure that I outlined above. Then it works fine for quite some time. This must mean something to someone, but it doesn't make sense to me.

I have two Win98SE computers. The power management on both worked fine until several months ago when the monitors did not turn OFF. The problem has appeared on both computers but seems more severe on one of them (my wife's). (My main computer is a Dell with XP Pro) I use the Power Management screen to set the monitors to turn off after 10 minutes and they do for awhile and then they stay ON. With a LOT of experimentation, I discovered that if I changed the shut down time from 10 to 5 minutes, it worked OK for awhile then the problem returned. I then changed the time back to 10 and again it was OK for awhile. I have tried 3 minutes and that works for awhile as well. It seems that it doesn't matter what I change it to as long as I change it. I have turned OFF the screen saver. The HDD does NOT go to hibernation. I have used Ctrl-Alt-Del to turn OFF all but Explorer and Systray. Same problem. I use Norton SystemWorks and Ghost. I regularly run all kinds of utilities such as SystemWorks, RegCure, RegistryFix, etc., The computers both run 24/7.