Dual monitor power save.

marscheese · Post by **marscheese** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 11:20 am

I'm running dual monitors, my main monitor being an LCD, my secondary being a CRT. I've heard that you should put your LCD on power save as much as possible, so there is no image, as this will prolong the LCD's life. What I'd like to do, is put my LCD on a power save of say...15 min. And have my secondary LCD stay on almost all the time (only running a screen saver if possible). I have ultra-mon, and that allows you to put a different screen saver on each monitor, but I don't see anything about the power-save feature. Can anyone help me with this?

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:05 pm

i duno... most video cards wont be able to do the power save on one port at a time. if your using 2 seperate card i dont se why it wouldent work... but i dont know of any setting to do it.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 2:11 pm

I'm aware of no way to do that unless someone writes a 3rd party utility to do it.

Window's normal monitor power saver will always put ALL monitors to sleep.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 11:18 pm

I have my two CRT's go to sleep after 10 minutes. I think it has definitaly prolonged the life of my 19". its beginning to get old, though, right after turning it on sometimes, it is VERY blurry. Then it clears up within 10 minutes. Oh well, this August is would have been in use for 2 years. And its a P990, so its an old monitor, and I bought it off ebay.

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 12:02 am

I would think that it would be better for a CRT to keep it so that you don't have to keep waking it up? I have mine set for 30min cause if I'm away for 30min, I'll usually be gone longer so it might as well be sleeping. But, for me, 10 min and I'd be waking it up a ton of times each day.

Got a 19" NEC FP950 thats been workin' fine for a couple years.