Re: monitor turned off
- Posted by gertie at visionsix.com
Feb 11, 2003
On 11 Feb 2003, at 19:18, tone.skoda at gmx.net wrote:
>
> I thought it wasn't possible.
> Monitor supports standby. Is standby same as turning off monitor?
> For example, is better to turn off monitor overnight or just leave it to go
> into
> standby mode?
That's impossible to tell, by looking at it or thru the email, really. For
instance, turning a tv off with a remote control only sets it to the same
standby mode as the monitor. It hasto stay awake at very low power
consumption to be looking for the "on" command or the existance of
incoming video signal again. If you don't have it on a UPS or surge protector
to protect it, turn it off manually when you leave it. Otherwise, let the puter
put it to sleep, it should be cold when you come back to it in the morning. If
not cold, it's not a decent powerdown mode.
There is a gotcha to autopowerdowns: the puter could freeze up. Let the OS
power the video or harddrives down, not the bios. If i let the bios power down
the harddrives, win95 freezes. If i let win95 power off the screen, win95
freezes when turning the screen back on. (this is not hardware or driver
related, it's happened on several computers.) If anything has a harddrive
powered down, and an application wants to use it, the application usually
crashes or reports a drive error. So i disabled all powerdown options, and i
use the on-off button when i want it on or off. Not letting the drives power
down will reduce the life of any drives over 5400 rpm, but some of my drives
have been going 24-7, 99.5% of the time, since 1994.
Kat
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