Screen Saver Important ?

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Steve said:
Gateway FHD2400 24" LCD Monitor.

Comments most welcome ...
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Some lcd monitors show a bit of burnin. Nothing burns,
but the result is the same.
So if you have the same software window up all the time,
and there are large periods of inactivity, a screensaver
can be useful, I use a nice aquarium with swimming fish.

If you see "burnin", there are small programs around to
exercise the bits with rapidly shifting on/off pixels,
which are said to cure the burnin,or sticky pixels.
Have never tried them.
 
My screen saver is interrupted by a Norton AntiVirus message briefly
displayed over the notification area of the Task Bar. It's too quick
to read but I can see "Norton AntiVirus ...". I effectively now have
no screen saver, hence my original question.
 
Steve said:
My screen saver is interrupted by a Norton AntiVirus message briefly
displayed over the notification area of the Task Bar. It's too quick
to read but I can see "Norton AntiVirus ...". I effectively now have
no screen saver, hence my original question.
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You should be able to go into the Power control panel, and set things
such that your computer enters S1, after a period of activity. All
that happens in S1, is the computer stops sending a video signal to
the monitor. The rest of the computer continues to run.

In response, the monitor turns off the backlight and goes
into standby. That will cause the least wear on your monitor, and avoid
burn-in. On my monitor, the status LED goes from green to yellow, there
is a brief OSD popup saying "No signal" and then the monitor backlight
goes off. While the backlight on a monitor could last as long
as 25000 hours, a lot of inverters (the thing that powers the
backlight), fail well before that number of hours. It is better
to just have the monitor switch off, than to be running a screensaver
all the time.

Paul
 
Steve Giannoni said:
Gateway FHD2400 24" LCD Monitor.

Comments most welcome ...
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YES and NO

YES, it can prevend from burning to monitor which should take years to burn

NO, if you have the monitor setup to go sleep after ## minutes then you can
do without screen saver. Especially with Windows 7 which requires better
graphic card (DivX-9 or better) else screen saver can cause locking up.
 
Sjouke Burry said:
Some lcd monitors show a bit of burnin. Nothing burns,
but the result is the same.
So if you have the same software window up all the time,
and there are large periods of inactivity, a screensaver
can be useful, I use a nice aquarium with swimming fish.

If you see "burnin", there are small programs around to
exercise the bits with rapidly shifting on/off pixels,
which are said to cure the burnin,or sticky pixels.
Have never tried them.
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If it burned then learn to live with it as there is no software to shift
hardware anywhere.

And I haven't seen any personal system with burnt monitor, but way back to
70's I used to work for manufactures making computer parts which they had
all monitor (monochorm) running 24/7 for years after years. So all monitors
had the MENUs burnt to screens.

And if you are talking about the DARK area on screen, then it's a
different story and it's not burnt. One of the methods to lighten the
darken area is using magnetic (be careful or try not to have magnetic close
to TV screen else you may damage the screen, I never tried on LCD to know if
it will effect the LCD or not).
 
Joel said:
If it burned then learn to live with it as there is no software to shift
hardware anywhere.

And I haven't seen any personal system with burnt monitor, but way back to
70's I used to work for manufactures making computer parts which they had
all monitor (monochorm) running 24/7 for years after years. So all monitors
had the MENUs burnt to screens.

And if you are talking about the DARK area on screen, then it's a
different story and it's not burnt. One of the methods to lighten the
darken area is using magnetic (be careful or try not to have magnetic close
to TV screen else you may damage the screen, I never tried on LCD to know if
it will effect the LCD or not).
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The OP asked about lcds, and sticky pixels ARE found.
Calling them sticky or burned is just semantics.
Exercizing LCD pixels might solve the broblem a little bit.
 
In message <[email protected]> Sjouke Burry
The OP asked about lcds, and sticky pixels ARE found.
Calling them sticky or burned is just semantics.
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Not really, sticking pixels tend to be a hardware defect and not
something that is burnt in like happened on CRT monitors back in the
day.

That isn't to say that LCDs are entirely immune, theoretically if the
crystals hold one position for an extended period of time it's possible
they'll eventually form a preference for that position, but this is
quite technically different from a stuck pixel (be it light or dark)
 
Steve Giannoni said:
My screen saver is interrupted by a Norton AntiVirus message briefly
displayed over the notification area of the Task Bar. It's too quick
to read but I can see "Norton AntiVirus ...". I effectively now have
no screen saver, hence my original question.
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The little button on the corner of the screen is the best option. Its
usually a circular icon with a vertical line through the top of the circle.
If you press this, the screen enters power-save mode. Simply press it again
to 'wake up'. This is operating system and software independant. Norton
won't interrupt and wake up the screen.

HTH
 
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