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To: Spots who wrote (3831)	11/30/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	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. Well, that never worked for me. Guess my luck doesn't hold with power downs <g>. That was the first thing I tried but never any luck either. Will have to try the shareware program mentioned. BTW: We do have a habit on this thread of beating things to death :) Sean

To: Spots who wrote (3831)	11/30/1998 8:20:00 PM
From: Clark Wang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Disable anything (all interrupts, IRQ3, IRQ4, etc. I mean ALL) that can wake up your PC. Set the timer to 1 min. Now boot your NT. Wait one min. See if your monitor will power down. If Windows 98 can power down your monitor, there is no reason your motherboard cannot do this. It's just a simple VESA command sent to the video card. If you still cannot power down the monitor, post all parameters on the Power Management page here. I'll take a look. BTW, are you using AMI or Award BIOS? Clark