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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on August 9, 2007, 12:40 am
Please log in for more thread options Yeah. Good question.
My favorite here is to use the control key.
Moving the mouse doesn't work (at my house & for optical mice, at
least), but clicking a button should work - I think :-)
On 8/04/2007, JW posted this:
> Another Idea:
> If you are using the power settings to turn off the monitor after a a certain
> amount of time what are you doing to get it to come back out of standby?
> Moving the mouse, hitting any key, hitting the start key?
>> On 8/03/2007, ebar3 posted this:
>>> I am using a media center pc with a radeon X1300 video card and a 37" LCD
>>> monitor with the DVI to HDMI cable and sometime uses the media extender on
>>> the Xbox in another room. My question is when I use the media extender in
>>> the other room and I have the monitor off on the media center pc why does
>>> it suspend and not allow the monitor to come out of stand by when I want
>>> to use it again after I just got done using the Media extender? Nothing
>>> comes up and it just doesn't work, I have either have to warm boot it or
>>> press my power key to shut it down (programed to shut down the computer
>>> safely). And I notice when sometimes using media center and watching TV it
>>> changes my resolution, but otherwise everything else works great.
>>>
>>> Edward
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>> I believe that Windows notices that the monitor is off and disconnects
>> (something) and won't start sending a signal to the monitor again. IIRC,
>> this has been reported in old posts here, and it - or something similar -
>> has happened to me as well.
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>> My TV lets me turn off the picture only, without turning the TV power off.
>> You might try to see if that can be done on your monitor.
>>
>> -- Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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