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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? |
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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 |
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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. |
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Energy Star problems
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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Baz wrote:
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 The problem isn't your monitor settings, but your PC settings. The OS, working in conjunction with your motherboard resources (including BIOS) determines the working state of your devices. That your PC exhibits intermittent failure to enter stand-by mode is only slightly influenced by your monitor choice, drivers or settings. Much more likely is that a device driver, or application/applet is resetting the "should I go to sleep yet?" timer under circumstances which remain unknown to you. You need to prune devices and services and thoroughly inspect settings in both firmware and software (application and OS) to fix the issue. If you feel up to it, there is a complicated but 100% effective workaround until you can spend the man-hours in probing the underlying fault: press the display off button when you are not in front of your PC. LCD start up time is minimal to the point of insignificance and off is the most economical stand-by state, or so I've heard on the internet. |
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On Fri, 9 May 2008 09:01:24 -0700 (PDT), Baz
wrote: 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 As E Solved said, it's a PC issue. I have the same problem with the software that accompanied my Logitech webcam. If I launch the webcam software, then my monitor will never go to sleep until the next reboot. Your problem is finding out what causes it. Mine was fairly easy because it worked fine for months and only started failing to power down after installing the webcam software. Good luck on your search. |
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