text: why does my computer keep going into power save mode? i`ll just be surfing the net, or whatever, and the screen will turn blue, and say power save mode. it makes me want to rip out my hair in frustration! also, why, when i try to load a page, sometimes a box will come up and say the connection was reset. aaaarrrrgghh!!!!!! yea theres definitely a connection problem there. power saving mode will look for 3 nonactivities, your monitor, keyboard, and your hard drive. if you dont use your keyboard or your mouse, then normally your monitor shuts down.   it looks like you have some registry problems where its doing the monitor shutdown before it checks to see if your mouse or keyboard is active.  is it a laptop? if it is a laptop, try taking out the battery and use the ac adapter instead and see if that works.  or go to control panel -> display -> screensaver -> then click on the power saving settings and disable all power saving options. or in xp the power settings might be in your control panel. disable everything and see if that works.  i'm putting my money on your battery though.