My PC and monitor properly enter standby (S3) mode, either manually or via the idle timeout. They also awake properly, either manually or for a scheduled event, except for the following.Say I've scheduled the Media Center to record a TV show, and the PC is in standby mode at the scheduled time. The PC properly wakes up, records the show, and then goes back into standby mode a few minutes later. Unfortunately, the monitor also wakes up when the PC does (although the screen remains black, in the absence of any user input). It is unnecessary and wasteful (it uses more than 100 watts) for the monitor to wake up just to show a black screen. In the absence of user input, the monitor should remain in standby mode when the PC awakes to run a scheduled task.My power settings are as follows: bubbles screensaver (4 minutes), login required, registry edited for a 60-second grace period, monitor timeout (5 minutes), PC sleep (10 minutes), login required; otherwise, standard Balanced Power settings.GA-P35-DS3Lr2(F8) Q9450 OCZ8500(4GB) GTX260(WDM1.1/181.71) 3xWDGreenPower(1TB)SATAWinTV1600 GGW-H20L 2560x1600 3007WFP Win6.1.7000x64 Avast4.8.1335I think the problem may lie with Windows 7's sleep/wake logic, rather than with my hardware or drivers, since the monitor does properly sleep and wake in all other respects.Does anyone else find the same behavior? Or does anyone find that their monitor does stay properly asleep when the PC wakes for a scheduled task?

I can't properly comment on the behavior of my monitor after waking to perform a requested task, but - I can say that my PC has awakened spontaneously for reasons unbeknownst to me and when I switched inputs on my TV set(main monitor) the monitor output has indeed been 'off'. Sometimes, regular keyboard/mouse activity fails to turn the monitor back 'on' as well, and a CTRL/ALT/DEL combination is required to shake things up and restore the monitor's output. I can assume that this might be a driver related bug, but only time(and a RC) will tell.

Yes, yours sounds like a different problem.Can anyone confirm that the problem I described either does or does not occur when your PC wakes itself from S3 sleep for a scheduled Media Center recording?

Followup information:If I jostle the mouse during the scheduled recording, then the monitor properly displays the login screen. And in the absence of further user input, the monitor then enters standby mode after a few minutes. But unless I jostle the mouse (or use the keyboard), the monitor never enters standby mode during the scheduled recording (although it does when the PC itself sleeps after the recording has finished). It is clearly absurd for the monitor NOT to sleep (during the scheduled recording) UNLESS there is user input!