Aug 23 2009
There Goes My Monitor
OK, so the monitor didn’t die, but it might just as well have. I can’t turn the darn thing off now. The power button on the front doesn’t seem to work properly anymore and the monitor is stuck on.
I unplugged the monitor, but I’m not exactly loving this idea as an everyday way of using the monitor. The other option would be using the energy savings options within Vista to turn off the monitor after being inactive for a while. I’m dubious of Vista’s power saving options. Would this work?
Since the warranty on the monitor has expired, I’m thinking of just buying a new monitor. However, there isn’t anything wrong with the monitor other than the fact that I can’t turn it off… no ugly clusters of dead pixels or anything like that.
Hmmm, what to do, what to do…
That’s wild. I would think, though, that the power saving mode would turn off–blank the monitor. However, on some monitors (and I don’t know about Vista), they’ll turn off just fine using energy saving mode, but have difficulty “waking” back up; my newer Samsung has an issue with this–it has to do with the auto signal detect since it has multiple ways you can connect it to the computer. Anyhow.
I bet the power switch is screwed up–but the energy saver mode is controlled seperately.