Monitor

ChrisJoeB · ‎04-17-2020

I have had this machine for a month now and during some partricularly long tasks with my old computer I used to turn the monitor off until the task was completed. With this machine I cannot find a way of turning the monitor off while leaving the pc on and working. If I put a screensaver on the background task seems to stop working.

wb2001 · ‎04-17-2020

@ChrisJoeB,

Simple task, and glad you asked. In figure 3 take note of the "time intervals".

I set mine to Turn off display "30 minutes".

I set Put the computer to sleep as "Never".

PS<> you must be old school. Screen savers were meant to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma computer monitors. That situation is 1980's thinking.

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ChrisJoeB · ‎04-18-2020

Thanks for that, and yes, you're right! I'm very old school, 14" crt's being the standard and that is probably why I don't like leaving monitors on for long periods doing nothing.

In fact the reason I posted the question was only that I don't like having a bright monitor on for 20 minutes while the computer is grinding away and I prefer it being off but if it's not an option and it doesn't matter.

Thanks very much for the reply!

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