Monitor advice

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:38:40 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

| I'm using the DisplayPort connection. Resolution is
| correct even if I wait to turn the monitor on until after
| Windows has booted.
|
| In other words... The resolution is never messed up. And
| since that is the problem a little research leads to, you
| suspect it is not the DisplayPort.
|
| Have you tried using HDMI or DVI, anyway?

Haven't yet (there's an HDMI connection, but no DVI). There was a time when I would
have exhausted every possibility in tracking down the cause of the problem. And I'm
thinking that could involve the OS, motherboard along with settings and drivers,
video card with drivers and cables, and the monitor itself. But I've reached a point
now where I'm satisfied just to take the easiest path that keeps the problem from
showing up. And that seems to be leaving the monitor turned on. No bother and
almost no added cost.

Larc

On 19/06/2017 12:10 PM, Larc wrote:
This is a bit off topic, but I have a question that should benefit from answers here.

My main computer is usually turned on shortly after I get up in the morning and not
shut down until just before I go to bed at night. I've also been turning off the
monitor, but am wondering if it would be better -- or at least no worse -- to just
leave it on. If too much of Windows loads before I switch it on, some visual
settings are affected. I'd like to avoid chances of that by leaving it on. Specs
show my monitor draws only 0.5W in sleep mode, which is only 0.2W more than it draws
when turned off. Are there any significant negative factors in leaving it on?

I've always left all of my monitors on stand-by, never even notice the
difference from turning it off.

Yousuf Khan


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On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:09:54 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:

| On 19/06/2017 12:10 PM, Larc wrote:
| This is a bit off topic, but I have a question that should benefit from answers here.
|
| My main computer is usually turned on shortly after I get up in the morning and not
| shut down until just before I go to bed at night. I've also been turning off the
| monitor, but am wondering if it would be better -- or at least no worse -- to just
| leave it on. If too much of Windows loads before I switch it on, some visual
| settings are affected. I'd like to avoid chances of that by leaving it on. Specs
| show my monitor draws only 0.5W in sleep mode, which is only 0.2W more than it draws
| when turned off. Are there any significant negative factors in leaving it on?
|
| I've always left all of my monitors on stand-by, never even notice the
| difference from turning it off.
|
| Yousuf Khan

Thanks. I've been doing that for several nights now and it's working out very well.

Larc

On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:32:24 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

If you were only concerned about one instance, you would not
bother. But this thread is about a reoccurring problem.

True. I'm pretty much situational, nor is my idea of a desktop going
to be compulsory for running diagonal vectors over, pushing a hundred
icons arranged for comprising lines, as general class-function
identity lines through a couple folders. Best way for keeping them
that way, my peace of mind, though, when Windows does its 52-pickup
trick and rearranges them. As I said, it's a potential and condition
of creative desktop environments, an unavoidable snafu, no retrieval
software delves into, even if more so retrievable in locating the
folders elsewhere (& paired with a binary OS backup).

It's hard to say how long he'll be able to take it, having Windows
rearrange the meticulously constructed desktop each time it can't
understand a 4K's synchronization scheme.

Best one can do is think up the permutations with what's given to work
with. Just learned more of that while messing around with a new
mb/PCI-Evideoboard setup, as well as better results (from earliest
HDMI connection interface) than, I'm now curious, if to have
mistakenly shot the feet out from this new Radeon series chipped MB.
Won't know until I supercede that HDMI for a more modern DMI
alternative, go out and purchase the cable, for what the MB also
sports, to compare both.

On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 23:20:20 -0400, Larc
wrote:

Thanks. I've been doing that for several nights now and it's working out very well.

Larc

Neither much difference even if I turn it off -- rather in an off
"phantom-state", as opposed to actual standby, where the 115V plug is
out of the wall, pulled, for things that happen -- losing user presets
or all the collected channels from a feed search and retrieval routine
and saved into a volatile memory state, clocks and such, that the
phantom state reason is to keep coherent (on some models).

Internet is a different beastieboy. In a software-engaged standby
state, a monitor connected here may be triggered on through the state
of the OS, remotely over usually prolonged usage/connection time
(between OS binary restorations). Which I've found to be the case
when it reawakens from a off-state (LCD tubes software disconnected
and un-lit) -- later to find it as if self-possessed and lighting up a
dark room -- not at all something possible, at least hasn't been a
single instance yet over the past twenty years since paying $800 for
Olivia Syntax 232-S12, once the power-off button is hardwire/RF
engaged.