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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (3810)	11/30/1998 9:17:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>I guess people aren't paying attention. NT doesn't support APM. No monitor and video card by default will powerdown. Not true. I have an ATI Pro Turbo (Rage II chip) running a Sony 200sf that powers down very nicely under NT, just the way I tell it to (first standby, then sleep) with the standard APM screen saver that comes with NT. Not exactly sure what you mean by "by default." I would expect to need a little software in the loop <g>. Your excerpt from my earlier post had a little more than you quoted: >>...My 21" is on a Matrox millenium which, for the life of me, I can't get to go into power saver mode in NT (it did under Win 95). Since it's easy to push the off button, I have not pursued this aggressively. My 17" on an ATI card goes nicely into power-saver mode (Emphasis added.) Maybe you weren't paying attention <GGG>. I haven't pursued the Millenium because it just hasn't popped to the top of my priority list, but it's definitely possible under NT. One of these days I'll get around to ragging Matrox about it. BTW, when Win95 came out my (new at the time) ATI Mach 32 wouldn't enter power saver mode. ATI said the Mach 32 used a a power saver method which 95 did not support. BUT they swapped it for a Mach 64 for a nominal price, about $70-$75. Doesn't sound so nominal now, but at the time the Mach 64 (VRAM version) was selling for well over $300 (I think I paid about 150 for the Mach 32). ATI is definitely on my list of good guys. Spots