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July 21st, 2005 16:00
2001FP does not go into power-save sleep mode
I have a Dell 2001FP 20" LCD monitor connected to a Geforce FX5500 AGP card with the digital DVI plug.
I have my computer's power settings in Windows 2000 set to turn off the monitor after 20 minutes, but it doesn't turn off the monitor. The screen saver works fine, but the power settings to turn off the monitor doesn't work anymore.
The weird thing is that it worked fine when the monitor was plugged into the analog VGA plug of my old video card. It seems that after replacing my old video card with the new video card and plugging the monitor into the digital DVI plug has disabled the power-saving mode.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I've already done the Factory Reset of the monitor from the monitor's on-screen menus.
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July 21st, 2005 17:00
scottkeen,
Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.
Try going into the osd controls on the monitor and make sure that the settings from the link below are set. I am not sure if that is the problem because power saving features are really quirky on desktop computers.
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scottkeen
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July 21st, 2005 17:00
I assume you're referring to the Video ON/OFF settings for power save in the OSD of the monitor. Yes, mine are set correctly to the default. I reset all settings on the monitor to factory defaults. Power Save was working fine when the monitor was connected to the analog VGA plug, but seems to not work any longer when connected to the digital DVI plug.
I found a cheesy workaround. As long as I have nothing connected to the S-Video or Composite inputs of the monitor, if I use the input selector button on the front of the monitor to select either S-Video or Composite, the monitor goes into power-save mode in about 2 seconds automatically. When I want to take the monitor out of power-save mode, I just hit the input selector button to DVI. This is not a final solution, but a temporary manual workaround until someone can resolve this.
I've downloaded the latest video adapter drivers for my XFX GeForce FX5500 video card, but that doesn't fix this anomaly.
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July 22nd, 2005 18:00