Are screensavers necessary???

[nealh]

Hi..I am curious..I know in the past you could "burn" an image into monitor screen is this still true today???

 

[rbV5]

Still true, but used to be far worse with monochrome displays. I work in a large Computer controlled Water plant and our displays are on 24/7/365 and definately burn our main screen into the Monitors. The remote workstations that are not manned around the clock use screen rotation and we have no problem there. You don't have to switch screens very often to be effective however and I would consider our situation to be worse case, and the screen burn-in has minimum effect anyway, due to the fact that we use the screen that burns in 99% of the time anyway.

edit: Hey, looks like I'm Platinum baby...woohoo

 

[toant103]

just turn the monitor off

 

[corkyg]

The best way to save the monitor is to just turn it off. The computer doesn't care.

But . . . screensavers can be a lot of fun. I use mine (Organic Art Deluxe) on my #2 system as a show . . . it plays any music CD of my choice and is great background music to an ever changing panoply of 3-D fractals driven by OpenGL.

I therefore consider screensavers as "entertainment."

 

[nealh]

See the problem is I have a big problem in WinXP and I am at a loss....my system after the screensaver is active goes into some type of hibernate mode and the monitor will not wake up..one time it required moving it to my second computer...last time a reboot worked t oget it to wake up...

this is ocurring depsite the mobo A7V133 bios have power management off and winxp I have set power scheme to always on...monitor and hdd to never off...system standby and hibernate are off and unchecked the enable hibernate in the hibernate tab...

 

[corkyg]

OK,check the screen saver's properties. Many of them have the ability to do their own thing with regard to power management. My Organic Art does. I can set all those types of things in its control panel.

 

[nealh]

I was using the Aquarium screensaver from WinXP plus pack..I check thanks

Neal