Hello again,
I was able to find some time to play around with BOINC and see if I could duplicate any problems with screensaver modes. At the time of trying I was running FAAH on one of the cores, so that is what the screensaver showed. I set the BOINC screensaver to start after 5 min, then modified my power savings to turn off the monitor after 10 min. I tried several times and it worked every time. I am not sure if the screensaver and monitor power off were to the second, I didn't get that exact, but it was within the minute. I am on a laptop, not sure if that would have any bearing, I wouldn't think so, but just thought I would mention it.
I then set my defaults back to no screensaver (the pretty graphics don't mean a whole lot to me) and for Windows to turn off my monitor after 5 min of inactivity. So far so good.
Also, I have BOINC running 100% on both cores and have my profile set to run always.
I have seen instances where my screensavers and/or power saving features didn't kick in when they were supposed to, but I don't think I was even running WCG then. The only way I could get the monitor to turn off was to do it manually or hope it would do it by itself. I was running XP, probably Professional (it's been so far back I can't remember) and I could not get it to work properly. I just gave up and lived with it. Later on down the road I re-installed Windows and Voila! It worked normally again. Nothing different about the re-install or the software installed either. Everything the same. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
I'll post if I find anything else out.

Thanks for your efforts and research joneil003. I've been unable to replicate either even when I tried to set the sequences in the wrong order. It must be an extreme rare combination of hardware/software. Didactylos has already laid out what We/WCG require to take this further. Without that, it's a dead end.

Lawrence' you know when you stick your tongue out and you stumble?



Apologies for the 'off-topic' but we remain lighthearted