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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (3825)	11/30/1998 6:35:00 PM
From: Clark Wang	Read Replies (1) of 14778

If you only want to power down monitor under NT (not the full APM support), it can be easily done on PCs made after Dec. 96. The BIOS has a function to power down monitor by sending VESA commands to video card. All video cards made after late '95 (from major vendors) implement DPMS in the video BIOS. If you don't know how to do it, get a manual from the motherboard BIOS manufacturer. Some people prefer to use software to power down the monitor. If you know programming, write a small procedure to call video BIOS's VESA DPMS command. That's it. Or use a shareware called ‘PowerStrip'. It comes with a command line function to turn off the monitor. entechtaiwan.com regards, Clark

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