Re: To shut down or not?

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Michael J. Mahon (mjmahon@aol.com) wrote:
: Adalbert Goertz asked:

: >Does the monitor suffer most by running continuously?

: Yes.  Almost everyone who leaves a computer on shuts down
: the monitor.

: "Screen savers" don't do the job--but now with EnergyStar
: compliance, modern machines will automatically put a
: monitor into standby mode, which is sufficient to preserve
: its life.

Don't get me started on that EnergyStar monitor crap.  You know how
annoying it is when you're trying to troubleshoot a system problem and the
monitor keeps turning off when you power-cycle the system, and it takes
just long enough to come back up that you can't see the BIOS screens......

...Or when you can't tell whether you have a power problem, a video card
problem, or just a monitor that refuses to turn itself on.....

Why don't monitors have a power-off disable jumper on them someplace?

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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