Monitor goes to sleep

kanadianrice

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I set my screen saver to none, my monitor's auto power off settings have been turned off, system settings have been altered so that the monitor does not go to sleep until im inactive for 3 hours but it my monitor keeps going to sleep when i watch stuff for more than 10 minutes. Any fixes? Will provide more info on demand
 
System specs?

Try turning off "fast restart" in the control panel power options.

Make sure you have the very latest motherboard bios version installed.

Verify that you have ALL of the most recent drivers as listed on your motherboard product page. If you're using ANY automatic utilities to verify bios or driver versions, like Geforce experience for GPU card drivers, or another utility, do not. Check manually on the product page and install the latest versions if you have not already done so. Do not trust the native Windows driver versions either.
 

kanadianrice

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I have i5-4690
GTX 960
8GB RAM
MSI Gaming 3 MOBO
750W Power supply

I read up on MSI mobo software and i heard it is the fastest way to brick your board.
 
You heard "what" is the fastest way to brick your board? Updating the BIOS? I've updated the BIOS on hundreds if not a thousand motherboards, MSI included, and have never "bricked" one yet. So long as you can follow directions, it's pretty much standard procedure these days, no different than updating drivers. But if you don't want your system to work correctly, that's your call.

Updating the bios is just once of the steps to eliminate the potential issues that can happen with newer hardware or operating systems.
 

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Did you happen to check Windows Update? There may be updates that fix this issue.

Please answer these questions.

1. When did the problem start happening. Please give a Date.
2. Give me the date when your computer was working.
3. The date that your computer was working, what changed? did you download or install anything on your computer? Did you get new hardware? etc.

Question 3 is very important. Please go to control panel as well. Go to uninstall a program and click on the Date Filter. What newest programs were downloaded to your computer? Please list them all until you git the date where the problem occurred for you, any of them called TeamViewer?