Energy Star problems

I have an 8600GTS connected to a Samsung SM223BW via DVI and am having
problems whereby Energy Star power saving seems not to activate
reliably.

If I set a screen saver to activate then the screen will quite often
work but the monitor will occassionally not go in Energy saving mode.

I have noticed that playing music in SonicStage will always stop
EnergyStar from activiting but I have noticed this problem whilst only
having Outlook Express sat on the task bar.

Ideas anyone?

On May 8, 9:10*am, Baz wrote:
I have an 8600GTS connected to a Samsung SM223BW via DVI and am having
problems whereby Energy Star power saving seems not to activate
reliably.

If I set a screen saver to activate then the screen will quite often
work but the monitor will occassionally not go in Energy saving mode.

I have noticed that playing music in SonicStage will always stop
EnergyStar from activiting but I have noticed this problem whilst only
having Outlook Express sat on the task bar.

Ideas anyone?

I should also add that this is on a Windows XP Pro machine

Baz wrote:
On May 8, 9:10 am, Baz wrote:
I have an 8600GTS connected to a Samsung SM223BW via DVI and am having
problems whereby Energy Star power saving seems not to activate
reliably.

If I set a screen saver to activate then the screen will quite often
work but the monitor will occassionally not go in Energy saving mode.

I have noticed that playing music in SonicStage will always stop
EnergyStar from activiting but I have noticed this problem whilst only
having Outlook Express sat on the task bar.

Ideas anyone?

I should also add that this is on a Windows XP Pro machine


Set your screen saver to "blank" with a delay of 1 minute. Apply.

Wait 60 seconds.

Does the screen shut off?

"Energy Star" achieved.

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.

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.

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