screens not going to sleep

[williamdrescher]

Win10
I have 3 screens. When I leave the machine I expect the screens to go to low power as they did before I installed BOINC and Folding@home.
When I return all 3 screens are on, but blank.
Touching a key results in all showing white, then the content comes back.
By low power, I want the screen's power switch to change from green to amber.
-bill

[PantherX]

Welcome to the F@H Forum williamdrescher,

I haven't used BOINC on a desktop so can't speak for the software configuration.

When it comes to F@H, you can have the screens automatically turn off after X time and the CPU/GPU will continue to fold. Here are some ways you can do it on Windows 10: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/226 ... -10-a.html

[foldy]

Maybe a screensaver is configured in Windows? Turn it off and just configure monitor sleep timeout.

[williamdrescher]

I do not have a screensaver configured and my power plan is set to turn off the displays after 15 min - they used to do this before I installed F@H.
Any other ideas ?

[PantherX]

Just to clarify, you stated this:

...When I leave the machine I expect the screens to go to low power as they did before I installed BOINC and Folding@home...

But followed up with this:

...my power plan is set to turn off the displays after 15 min - they used to do this before I installed F@H...

So, the issue is that while we can try to help you out with F@H, we can't help you out for BOINC as that's a different application. Have you uninstalled BOINC and only left F@H on your system? With only F@H installed, are you still having the issue where the monitor does not turn off? Have you double checked the monitor power settings?

[v00d00]

Power button? or is that too much energy expenditure?

[williamdrescher]

I thought I had to install BOINC to get to FH.
Pushing the power buttons is not too much energy, forgetting to push the power buttons is too much waste.

[Neil-B]

BOINC and FAH are two totally separate distributed computing platforms so you don't need BOINC installed to be able to install/run FAH or vice versa

[williamdrescher]

I removed BOINC and that problem went away. Thanks for the suggestion.
Now the 2 aux screens do power down but the main screen has a greyed out screen saver.
Where would I go to turn that off?

[williamdrescher]

Correction: when the main screen is greyed it is the Web Control that is displayed under the grey.

[williamdrescher]

Correction: "Web Control is sleeping," but it prevents the screen from powering down.

[PantherX]

Have you tried to close Web Control and see what happens? Do note that you do not have to leave Web Control open to fold so can be safely closed/reopened as and when needed.