03-25-2008
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RE: Turn Off Display - but, it will not turn back on, must reboot
yeah it should ask which monitor(s) to turn off
"Jalil Vaidya" wrote: Quote:
> Thanks for your reply Vikrant! While I am inclined to believe that it is an
> issue with the video drivers, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers has
> not resulted in any improvement. I have tried TurnOffMonitor shareware
> utility from http://www.rtsoftwares.com and it seems to be working in a
> strange way ;-) When I turn off the monitors and turn them back on I see the
> same behavior as before even with the utility running in background. However,
> if I run the utility again it turns off the monitors (it always does when you
> run it) but moving the mouse or clicking the buttons brings both the monitors
> to life, YAY!!! While this is not ideal, it is certainly much better than
> nothing :-) Thanks for suggesting the utility, much appreciated! Due to the
> problems I faced, I had disabled auto turn off of the monitor when the
> screensaver starts. I had also disabled the same in power management
> settings. May be I will use the utility to control these settings from now
> on. Thanks for suggesting this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jalil Vaidya
>
> "vikrant" wrote:
> Quote:
> > it must be driver related issue
> > however as you said you have installed the latest drivers
> > turning off monitor by os is done by sending a message to the system &
> > system turns on the display whenever it detects mouse or keyboard event
> > try out a shareware at http://www.rtsoftwares.com
> > don'nt think it will change situaton as the issue seems to be of a
> > corrupted/incorrectly installed driver, but it might work
> > "Jalil Vaidya" wrote:
> > Quote:
> > > Anyone know how to resolve this? I have exact same problem as David but with
> > > slight difference. My primary monitor (left one) is connected to DVI
> > > connector and the secondary monitor (right one) is connected to VGA connector
> > > on the same video card (ATI Radeon 9200 - its an old card). If I turn off the
> > > monitors and turn them back on the primary monitor (DVI) is blank with "No
> > > Signal Input" message; the left one turns on fine. If I RDP into this machine
> > > from another one then the primary monitor comes to life. Another solution is
> > > to reboot the machine like David mentioned. I have latest ATI Catalyst
> > > software and drivers and have tried suggestions in other forums (like turning
> > > of Transient Multi Monitor task etc.) but nothing has helped so far. The same
> > > setup runs fine on WinXP. Any help is very much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jalil Vaidya
> > >
> > > "David Wess" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have my monitor display set to turn off after 15 minutes. Screen saver is
> > > > set to engage after five minutes. Problem is, once the monitor turns off, it
> > > > will not turn back on unless I reboot by pressing the power button on my
> > > > computer. There is nothing else I can try because the monitors (dual) are
> > > > both completely blank. The only way I can prevent this from occurring is by
> > > > disengaging all screen savers and 'turn off display'. Then the screen saver
> > > > never engages, and monitors never to blank, but I have to press the power
> > > > buttons on the monitors to turn them off when I am not using the computer.
> > > >
> > > > I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit, with all updates installed. I
> > > > have 3GB memory. My video card is an ATI Radeon X1600 Series with 512MB
> > > > memory. I just updated the drivers yesterday (11/11/07) to 8.421.0.0 dated
> > > > 9/28/07. My computer is a HP running at 3.6MHz. Other than the display
> > > > issues, the computer runs just fine.
> > > >
> > > > What adjustments should I make so that I can use my screen saver and so that
> > > > I can set my display to turn off after 15 minutes?
> > > >
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