On May 9, 4:22*pm, "Mr.E Solved!" wrote:
Baz wrote:
That doesn't achieve the same thing as the backlight of the monitor is
still powered up. When it is in energy saving the power light flashes
and the backlight is off.

Your PC determines the sleep mode, not your monitor. Blinking blue
lights on Samsung monitors is stand-by. No different from off other than
the blinky light. It takes the exact amount of time to get an image from
off or stand-by.

Put your PC in sleep/hibernate. Then you will enjoy the blinky blue light.

You still seem to misunderstand what I a trying to achieve.

On the windows display settings you have the option to turn off the
monitor after a set period of time. If I set this to 3 minutes and do
not touch the keyboard for 3 minutes then the monitor goes into
standby (blinky light mode), PC is still running. Moving the mouse
will power up the monitor immediately.

The problem I am having is that I have had many occurences where I
leave the keyboard untouched for many hours and the monitor has not
shutdown. This is annoying as I come back to find my lovely backdrop
burning its way into my LCD screen (and wasting precious electricity).

Yes I can set the screen saver to blank but this does not shut down
the monitor.

I never experienced these problems with my old PC and suspect that it
is either a windows settings or driver issue.

Baz