Dual monitors set to "turn of display in 10 minutes" and only one wakes up after moving the mouse an

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Published on 2009-08-05T04:03:54Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 17:13 UTC
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The problem happens on multiple machines in our office. All of them run on Nvidia graphics cards and all use Windows Vista.

Sometimes we can get the dormant monitor to wake up by hitting ctrl+alt+delete, waiting 5 seconds, then hitting escape. But, sometimes we're forced to reboot.

Anyone else experience this problem and have a fix?

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