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Windows 10 will not turn off display when screen is locked
Is there an option to turn off the display while the screen is locked?
I do not want to turn off display based on idle time as the "Power & sleep" settings allow.
I do not want the ...
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Is there considerable energy saving using a black background on my website?
I had heard that you can save power by using a black background instead of a coloured background. Is there any evidence that this saves power on people's monitors?
Is this a way that we can cut ...
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Should I use a screensaver or just turn the monitor off when I am done?
After using a screensaver for over ten years, I am starting to think about changing the way I save energy with my monitors. I want to get in the habit of shutting my monitors off when I am done using ...
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Why does my monitor's on/off light flash continuously after I unplug it?
This is not a problem but I want to know what's going on with my LG L91A 19" monitor. I've been using this monitor for the last 3 years and I have no problems with it. Recently I realized something ...
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Intel NUC5i7RYH won't boot, displays nothing
I'm looking at an Intel NUC, model NUC5i7RYH. It was working fine until yesterday, running Windows 10. After being left alone for the night - it has entered a state in which:
nothing is sent to the ...
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Does changing the screen resolution affect power consumption?
If I have two identical monitors and have set one to display in high resolution and the other to display in low resolution will there be any difference in power consumption?
Note that this question ...
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Does turning off the monitor drop GPU power consumption?
When I manually switch one of my monitors off in a dual monitor setup does the GPU drop power consumption and stop sending a signal to the monitor?
Does it work the same way when Windows turns off ...
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Monitor with light switch controlled outlet, harmful?
I have a power outlet tied into one of my lightswitches. I currently have a lamp plugged into it, but was thinking about plugging my monitors into it as well so that I could easily turn them off when ...
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Why do my network interface and powered-off backlight consume too much power in powertop?
I have an ASUS n550jv laptop. Currently, the wifi is off, the ethernet is active, and the display is completely off (using an external monitor). Yet, in powertop I see the following:
The battery ...
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Power cord ratings (Volts, Amps) for monitor?
I recently bought the HP w2228h monitor on the cheap locally. It didn't come with a power cord and I was amazed at the price of the HP 8121-0739 power cord that originally comes with it.
I am not ...
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1
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Motherboard won't power down completely, until display port is unplugged
A couple of days ago I bought two new monitors (iiyama g-master GB2730HSU-B1), and by doing so I also switched to using display port instead of HDMI (EVGA GTX 970 graphics card).
Now a weird issue ...
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Apple Cinema Display - Doesn't work if USB plugged in
Product
Apple 30" Cinema display ('05)
Scenario
For my macbook pro laptop this monitor requires a mini display port + usb connection to provide full resolution of 2560x1600. However with my desktop ...
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1
answer
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Weird monitor behavior
I had a power outage in my neighbourhood last night. My PC is working normally but my monitor (LG) isn't. This isn't the first time this had happened. Before, when power outages happened, my monitor ...
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HDMI not working while plugging in Power charger to the laptop (works fine with battery only)
I have an Acer Aspire 6930 with Nvidia 9600m GT GPU, there is a weird issue that occurs when I connect the Acer Aspire to an LG TV with HDMI cable... the Laptop recognizes the TV and everything seems ...
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Optimal monitor resolution
Currently, there are a lot of monitors capable of displaying 4K resolutions, for example the one used in this Alienware laptop. This laptop has 15 inch display with 4K resolution. I have a few ...
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