janey

Thanks everyone for yoiur advice, tried fn + no change and also went into screen saver settings which was set to 3 minutes so changed it to never. Problem still there so guess I will try and source antother battery and put another copy of XP and make sure I have all the right drivers.

Laptop came with Vista changed to XP Home Edition, needed to put a clean copy of XP Home struggling with finding the right drivers. Been on Acer Website but Audio drivers keep failing and getting a dark screen when plugged into mains. Any ideas?