wont go to screensaver or standby..............

[the-dogs-nutts]

ok - brand new pc!!

wont go to screen saver even tho as far as i can see its all set up properly and has a 10min waiting time!!!

also when i go to put it into standby mode all it does is comes up with screen that says "preparing to shutdown" then just wont do anything - i have to reset it!!

im running windows xp by the way!!

[allen2]

Power management or ACPI seem to not function properly. So either of them isn't properly installed or is disabled in bios.