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Update XP Screensaver
Further to the previous of late Mar/early April when I said that it appeared
to me that XP on my machine had a mind of it's own in regard to screensaver op. Well it seems that not just XP has functions in regard to the screensaver which appear to be beyond my control - well enter the two AOC LCD screens that I have for doing their own thing. I have just noticed that after the screen saver was in operation for about 20, the two screens both switched off together, ie, what I thought was screensaver humbug in XP, is in this case, some preset operation of the LCD screens which after a preset period have switched off. When I say switched off, well I can only at this stage say that the "On" leds which are blue in normal mode, both went to Orange, which is their down mode. This maybe of interest to those of you who use LCD screens. Oh and I did a scan of the PDF's for these screens and their is no mention of this function, that I saw. Dave. |
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Update XP Screensaver
Well this would be easy to test out...
Turn OFF the Windows controlled screensaver, and any other monitor power-mode time-out in "Power Options" so that the screen *should* be ON all the time - forever. If then the screen [still] turns itself off - you then know that it is a function of the monitor! == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Further to the previous of late Mar/early April when I said that it appeared to me that XP on my machine had a mind of it's own in regard to screensaver op. Well it seems that not just XP has functions in regard to the screensaver which appear to be beyond my control - well enter the two AOC LCD screens that I have for doing their own thing. I have just noticed that after the screen saver was in operation for about 20, the two screens both switched off together, ie, what I thought was screensaver humbug in XP, is in this case, some preset operation of the LCD screens which after a preset period have switched off. When I say switched off, well I can only at this stage say that the "On" leds which are blue in normal mode, both went to Orange, which is their down mode. This maybe of interest to those of you who use LCD screens. Oh and I did a scan of the PDF's for these screens and their is no mention of this function, that I saw. Dave. |
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Update XP Screensaver
Well this would be easy to test out...
Turn OFF the Windows controlled screensaver, and any other monitor power-mode time-out in "Power Options" so that the screen *should* be ON all the time - forever. If then the screen [still] turns itself off - you then know that it is a function of the monitor! == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Further to the previous of late Mar/early April when I said that it appeared to me that XP on my machine had a mind of it's own in regard to screensaver op. Well it seems that not just XP has functions in regard to the screensaver which appear to be beyond my control - well enter the two AOC LCD screens that I have for doing their own thing. I have just noticed that after the screen saver was in operation for about 20, the two screens both switched off together, ie, what I thought was screensaver humbug in XP, is in this case, some preset operation of the LCD screens which after a preset period have switched off. When I say switched off, well I can only at this stage say that the "On" leds which are blue in normal mode, both went to Orange, which is their down mode. This maybe of interest to those of you who use LCD screens. Oh and I did a scan of the PDF's for these screens and their is no mention of this function, that I saw. Dave. |
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Update XP Screensaver
Tim,
Thankyou for your last advice. I am wrong ofcourse, the standown of the screensaver is apparently form windows OS and not instigated by the AOC monitor software. Since I stripped away all timeout settings from the screensaver, excepting the basic timing for the screensaver, well the screensaver runs indefinately, until I disturb it. Thankyou, Dave "Tim Meddick" wrote in message ... Well this would be easy to test out... Turn OFF the Windows controlled screensaver, and any other monitor power-mode time-out in "Power Options" so that the screen *should* be ON all the time - forever. If then the screen [still] turns itself off - you then know that it is a function of the monitor! == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Further to the previous of late Mar/early April when I said that it appeared to me that XP on my machine had a mind of it's own in regard to screensaver op. Well it seems that not just XP has functions in regard to the screensaver which appear to be beyond my control - well enter the two AOC LCD screens that I have for doing their own thing. I have just noticed that after the screen saver was in operation for about 20, the two screens both switched off together, ie, what I thought was screensaver humbug in XP, is in this case, some preset operation of the LCD screens which after a preset period have switched off. When I say switched off, well I can only at this stage say that the "On" leds which are blue in normal mode, both went to Orange, which is their down mode. This maybe of interest to those of you who use LCD screens. Oh and I did a scan of the PDF's for these screens and their is no mention of this function, that I saw. Dave. |
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Update XP Screensaver
Tim,
Thankyou for your last advice. I am wrong ofcourse, the standown of the screensaver is apparently form windows OS and not instigated by the AOC monitor software. Since I stripped away all timeout settings from the screensaver, excepting the basic timing for the screensaver, well the screensaver runs indefinately, until I disturb it. Thankyou, Dave "Tim Meddick" wrote in message ... Well this would be easy to test out... Turn OFF the Windows controlled screensaver, and any other monitor power-mode time-out in "Power Options" so that the screen *should* be ON all the time - forever. If then the screen [still] turns itself off - you then know that it is a function of the monitor! == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Further to the previous of late Mar/early April when I said that it appeared to me that XP on my machine had a mind of it's own in regard to screensaver op. Well it seems that not just XP has functions in regard to the screensaver which appear to be beyond my control - well enter the two AOC LCD screens that I have for doing their own thing. I have just noticed that after the screen saver was in operation for about 20, the two screens both switched off together, ie, what I thought was screensaver humbug in XP, is in this case, some preset operation of the LCD screens which after a preset period have switched off. When I say switched off, well I can only at this stage say that the "On" leds which are blue in normal mode, both went to Orange, which is their down mode. This maybe of interest to those of you who use LCD screens. Oh and I did a scan of the PDF's for these screens and their is no mention of this function, that I saw. Dave. |
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Update XP Screensaver
BTW - many screensavers dismiss themselves before user intervention, it's like some
are more prone to it than others. As a rule, if you have problems with screensavers and your PC, test it out with one of the default Windows screensavers. Microsoft screensavers being, on the whole, more compatible with Windows than third-party ones, and the simplest being all the better - i.e.: logon.scr or scrnsave.scr for test purposes. == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Tim, Thankyou for your last advice. I am wrong ofcourse, the standown of the screensaver is apparently form windows OS and not instigated by the AOC monitor software. Since I stripped away all timeout settings from the screensaver, excepting the basic timing for the screensaver, well the screensaver runs indefinately, until I disturb it. Thankyou, Dave "Tim Meddick" wrote in message ... Well this would be easy to test out... Turn OFF the Windows controlled screensaver, and any other monitor power-mode time-out in "Power Options" so that the screen *should* be ON all the time - forever. If then the screen [still] turns itself off - you then know that it is a function of the monitor! == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Further to the previous of late Mar/early April when I said that it appeared to me that XP on my machine had a mind of it's own in regard to screensaver op. Well it seems that not just XP has functions in regard to the screensaver which appear to be beyond my control - well enter the two AOC LCD screens that I have for doing their own thing. I have just noticed that after the screen saver was in operation for about 20, the two screens both switched off together, ie, what I thought was screensaver humbug in XP, is in this case, some preset operation of the LCD screens which after a preset period have switched off. When I say switched off, well I can only at this stage say that the "On" leds which are blue in normal mode, both went to Orange, which is their down mode. This maybe of interest to those of you who use LCD screens. Oh and I did a scan of the PDF's for these screens and their is no mention of this function, that I saw. Dave. |
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Update XP Screensaver
BTW - many screensavers dismiss themselves before user intervention, it's like some
are more prone to it than others. As a rule, if you have problems with screensavers and your PC, test it out with one of the default Windows screensavers. Microsoft screensavers being, on the whole, more compatible with Windows than third-party ones, and the simplest being all the better - i.e.: logon.scr or scrnsave.scr for test purposes. == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Tim, Thankyou for your last advice. I am wrong ofcourse, the standown of the screensaver is apparently form windows OS and not instigated by the AOC monitor software. Since I stripped away all timeout settings from the screensaver, excepting the basic timing for the screensaver, well the screensaver runs indefinately, until I disturb it. Thankyou, Dave "Tim Meddick" wrote in message ... Well this would be easy to test out... Turn OFF the Windows controlled screensaver, and any other monitor power-mode time-out in "Power Options" so that the screen *should* be ON all the time - forever. If then the screen [still] turns itself off - you then know that it is a function of the monitor! == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Further to the previous of late Mar/early April when I said that it appeared to me that XP on my machine had a mind of it's own in regard to screensaver op. Well it seems that not just XP has functions in regard to the screensaver which appear to be beyond my control - well enter the two AOC LCD screens that I have for doing their own thing. I have just noticed that after the screen saver was in operation for about 20, the two screens both switched off together, ie, what I thought was screensaver humbug in XP, is in this case, some preset operation of the LCD screens which after a preset period have switched off. When I say switched off, well I can only at this stage say that the "On" leds which are blue in normal mode, both went to Orange, which is their down mode. This maybe of interest to those of you who use LCD screens. Oh and I did a scan of the PDF's for these screens and their is no mention of this function, that I saw. Dave. |
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