Turn off LCD from its power button

[xax]

This may be a stupid question, but I'm interested to know if turning off the LCD monitor from its power button could damage the monitor or the computer video card. I have a new monitor with a bright binking blue led in my bedroom and I cannot sleep with it binking in my eyes.

 

[imported_flounder]

Originally posted by: xax
This may be a stupid question

Yes it is.

and yes you can turn it off from the power switch. That is why it's there

 

[wwswimming]

Originally posted by: flounder
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: xax
This may be a stupid question</end quote></div>

Yes it is.

i think it's a smart question. it indicates an instinctive sense
for the subtle ways electronics can inter-act. one design i worked
on was a re-re-design of a radio backplane for an airborne
application and it had major EMI problems. the people who did
the re-design didn't understand the removing groundplane to
save fab. cost could unleash a mess of EMI. if they had asked
a simple question in the lunchroom - "could removing the groundplane
have an effect on the 10 MHz line" - kind of like the original post,
it would have saved mega-bucks. (of course, since it was a consulting
house, they made more money doing extended re-re-re-designs, but
that's a separate issue.)

could it damage the video card ? under certain conditions
that are normally not encountered in the normal SOHO,
yes.

the short answer - no.

 

[xax]

Thanks wwswimming and flounder - I think - .