Power settings changing

[jholland1964]

I understand this, and that is where I'm changeing them, but they are reverting back.

That is not what you said.....
I have changed the settings in the display property's, clicked on apply. check the settings, and I'm good to go.

[jholland1964]

Please give the exact steps you are using exactly to change and save these power options, and where are you doing them? I am not certain now we are even talking about the same thing.

Later,after 15 min of inactivity, my screen will go black, and when I check the settings, they are back to 15,30,20 on power options

Please explain exactly WHAT is back to 15, 30, 20

Also believe you must be logged in as Adminstrator to change the settings.

[Dtex]

You can either go through the control panel, or right click on your desktop,Properties,Screen Saver,Power to get to the power settings. The 15,30,20 is in reference to the Turn off Monitor, Turn off Hard Disk, System Standby options under the Plugged in heading. When I change these all to never, and click on "Apply", the settings show that they were applied, but later, after 15 min of inactivity, my screen will turn off. Under the Advanced tab, I change the "When I close the lid of my portable computer" tab to "Do Nothing, and click "Apply", but yet again, later when I close the laptop, it goes into standby mode.

I have a HP dv8000
Duel 100 gig HD's
2 gigs of Ram
AMD Turion 64 ML-37
ATI Radeon xpress 200

I'm logged in as Admin to make changes

Don't know what else to say on this one, any Idea's?