Preventing Standby

[flahmeshess]

Lately, I notice that my machine does not go into standby. Neither
does the monitor turn off.
I wonder how would the computer know whether to go into standby or
not ? What "resets" the standby timer or monitor turnoff timer ?

Thanks !

 

[Bob I]

Busy software(CPU activity) files being written to the harddrive, noise
from the mouse or keyboard.

flahmeshess wrote:

> Lately, I notice that my machine does not go into standby. Neither
> does the monitor turn off.
> I wonder how would the computer know whether to go into standby or
> not ? What "resets" the standby timer or monitor turnoff timer ?
>
> Thanks !
>