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Can't turn off monitor

16 years ago

Everything was working fine earlier this morning. Now, when I tried to turn off the monitor with the power button on it, nothing happens. The picture just stays on. I tried shutting down and restarting- still had the problem. I went into the control panel and tried to shut it off automatically "after one minute" -didn't work.

Any idea what is wrong?

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owbist
16 years ago
You seem to have 2 problems if I understand correctly. Using the On/Off switch on the bottom of the monitor no longer works? Do feel or hear a click if in fact you felt or heard the click before?

Right click desktop and using Properties also does not work to cause the monitor to go into 'Snooze' mode?

A make and model of both the monitor and computer might work wonders for anyone trying to assist. This is a desktop or laptop?
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
16 years ago
Sounds like the power switch on the monitor is not working.

Buy a power strip to switch the monitor separately. I would'nt fool aroung with the switch much or you may end up buying a new monitor.

dcarch
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eviemp
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks for the information It's a Nspire 17" monitor-four years old. I think it may be a bad switch as it did work twice when I pressed it. but it usually won't.

You mentioned turning the monitor off with the power strip. I can do that but isn't it bad to leave the picture(image) on the screen all day?
mikie_gw
16 years ago
Many video cards can turn the monitor off or on or put them into a power saving mode.

nersoft has a small windows command line .exe that does lots of things like that.

As an example...
Have a shortcut on my laptop/desktop;
C:\anyFile\nirsoft\nircmd\nircmd.exe cmdwait 1000 monitor off
a mouse wiggle wakes it up.

Of course I included a keyboard shortcut too; "Cmd + Alt + Down" .. but that didnt work so well... just turns my display upside down ;)

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd2.html#using

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