Turning off monitor via software

[Operandi]

Im looking for a way to instantly turn off a monitor, either with a 3rd party app or perhaps a keyboard shortcut.

possible?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Sure. PowerStrip might be able to do that, if you could bind a hotkey to a particular resolution, with custom sync polarities.
Back in the olden days, monitors used to use sync polarities to indicate which resolution was being used, back in the days of multiple-fixed-freq monitors, before the introduction of computer-controller multi-sync monitors. So video cards still have that ability. Nowadays, most video cards output (the same) particular sync polarities for multiple different resolution video-modes, and use the alternate sync polarities to signal to a DPMS-compliant multi-sync VGA monitor to switch to a different power-save mode. I think that you have to cut the syncs altogether to get the monitor to enter power-down rather than sleep mode, but it should be possible.

Alternatively, you could have a 3rd-party app respond to a hotkey, and then send a power-management request to Windows' itself, and then it would send it on to the video drivers, and they would "do the right thing", assuming that you had your monitor properly installed in Windows'.

 

[Accord99]

Wizmo should be able to do it:
http://grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

assuming that what you want is to get it into standby mode.

 

[corkyg]

What's wrong with just touching the monitor's power switch? That is instant off and onn without any interaction with the computer. It's probably faster as well as safer.

 

[Operandi]

What's wrong with just touching the monitor's power switch? That is instant off and onn without any interaction with the computer. It's probably faster as well as safer.

What?s wrong with it? I don't want to; that?s what. I was looking for a way to just simply turn off the monitor from across the room with my ATi remote without necessarily going into standby.

Wizmo should be able to do it
http://grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm
assuming that what you want is to get it into standby mode.

Ok, I tried that program and I got it to work exactly how I wanted, turns off the monitor without affecting anything else. However I now have a new problem; in order to use this program you create shortcuts and add commands to perform given functions, "monoff" turns off the monitor for example, running the program itself dose nothing. Problem is the ATI software doesn?t seem to handle shortcuts properly at all, it adds a ".LNK" extension at the end of the path and when I try running it through the remote its tells me the application could not be started....

This has to be a case of crappy ATi software...... Ideas?