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A few weeks ago, I can't remember exactly when it occurred (May have been after installing W11) my screensaver and display sleep functions just completely stopped working. I have tried every trick in the book. I have updated my BIOS and chipset drivers. Powercfg -requests shows an audio stream running from realtek, I tried overriding it but didn't solve anything. I confirmed every power option setting is correctly enabled. Basically I've spent extensive time googling and troubleshooting this to no avail.
The one thing that did fix it was running the DISM restore commands in CMD Prompt, however, it only works temporarily for the initial reboot after running that command, and then it stops working again if I reboot a 2nd time.
What can I do to fix this problem?
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Well get this. I just had to do another clean format and install due to a RAID issue. (This is my 2nd PC for gaming only so its easy to start from scratch)
And lo and behold the screensaver is working. The thing is I have no idea what the difference is now. I set up Windows and settings the same way I always have them and installed all the exact same apps as before.
I have a brand new computer, built from scratch. Every component is new. Clean install of Windows 11 from a USB drive. Once I had all the updates done and minimum software installed (Windows11, Chrome, Office365) the screensaver stopped working.
I've tried all the "fixes" in this 9 page thread and still no dice.
I have also done a clean re-install, but sadly, no luck. This has been plaguing me from the beginning and have tried everything
I had the same problem. I tried every fix out there and nothing worked. I did a fresh install, tried installing every driver update, tried the beta version. Played with disabling all the startup apps. Then it started working finally. Now it works 95% of the time. I think it would be helpful if they made a utility to tell people why it is not working, something like that. It feels very much like a black box as is, very difficult to tell what is going wrong.
Same. I have reinstalled multiple times and been unable to get issues resolved.
At this point this bug has caused physical hardware damage to my Cintiq as it has permanent burn-in and screen discoloration over time because of this bug. It's a screen that has high use, and then the fact power savings/screensaver never kicked on...
It's disappointing to see that this has been going on as long as it has.
