Power Management - Monitor

I have this problem:
my monitor doesn’t shut down automatically when i set it to power down after 5 minutes.

the first time i set it, and apply the settings, it works, but then when i restart the system, it doesn’t work even though the settings say power down in 5 minutes

i have win98, and the monitor is energy star compliant.

anyone know why this would happen?

What does the power management icon in the control panel say? Also, Got the right monitor selected & the right driver?

try checking in safe mode that there isint more than one monitor in the device manager – Win98 has a nasty habit of more than one

Check the power management setting in the BIOS – whatever it is set to currently – switch it to the other setting

If you dont have the specific driver for the monitor set it to a plug and play monitor – its a good generic driver