*** Updated subject to reflect that this may be an AMD/ATI issue, and not just Windows 8 ***
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I think I may have gotten a setting wrong somewhere along the way.
My intention is to have Windows shut the screen off after 30 minutes, the HDD after 60, and go to sleep after several days of non-use.
But for some reason, my current "theme" isn't allowing that. I woke up this morning with the monitor "black but electrically charged" and nothing but a white "hand cursor" on the middle of the screen.
Power options is set correctly:
Screen saver is set to "none"
Turn off monitor: 30 minutes
Turn off hard disk: 60 minutes
Sleep after 10,000 minutes
Hybrid sleep is on
Hibernate is set to "never"
Any ideas? This is annoying!