Update RE: XP Screensaver

[David]

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.

 

[Tim Meddick]

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]

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

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.

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.

 

[Tim Meddick]

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.

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

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.

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.