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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

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

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (3825)	11/30/1998 7:08:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>Oops.... Guess I was the one not paying attention... Happens to the best of us, and this proves it <ggg>. Yes, I've had problems with ATI drivers too. And Matrox. THE thing that distinguishes them to my mind is that they keep on doing the upgrades while the rest abandon their customers for the next step. Doesn't seem to matter whether they repackage it or they make it. I don't even look at anybody else (except occasionally #9, but for every good thing I read somebody whose opinion I value knock's 'em, like you just did, which keeps putting me off). Of course I have been voluble here on my utter denigration of Diamond. They can rot in hell and come out the other side before I'll ever buy anything else of theirs. Jerk me around, will they ... <ggg>. Spots