**Shutting all power to the monitor**

[Dek]

I have attached a new monitor to my computer.
Previously on my old monitor when I go to switch off my computer at night all the power to monitor turns off, so thus there is no indicator light on.

Now when I go to switch of the computer the computer shuts down normally the indicator switch switches on the "new" monitor changes from green to light orange and remains on.
Is there any way I could shut all power to the computer?

I have actually tested the "new" monitor on another computer and on this computer when I shut down the computer all power is shut down including that to the monitor, however I rarely use the spare computer.

[Whyzman]

Dek,

Does the older monitor ever go to "orange," or is "orange" only available on the new monitor?

On the older monitor...once powered down and, and as you say "off," if you push the power button at this point what happens?

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[Sylvander]

Hello Dek

Is this new monitor connected to it's own separate power socket at the wall [or wherever] or does it connect to the power output/supply socket on the back of the tower/desktop unit?

1. If it is connected to the socket on the back of the PC, when you switch off the PC, there should be no power available to the monitor. How can it possibly still be "live"?

2. The above [1] would suggest you have it's power input lead connected to a separate, independant, supply source in which case, of course, it will not switch off unless you press and release the monitor's own power switch.
I dislike this arrangement because of the sort of trouble you're having.
You could switch on the monitor alone without any input from the PC and what's the point of that. [perhaps to test the monitor?]
You could switch on the PC alone [without the monitor] and what's the point of that?
Normally you want both to come on, and go off, together and so it's much better, surely, to have the monitor supplied with power from the PC and controlled by the PC's on/off switch. That's the way I have mine connected, although I could, if I wished do it the other way.

3. If your monitor is connected to the power output socket on the PC [just as it was before] and is behaving this way then WOW!
I don't know the details of the wiring but I would think something is amiss with the on/off switch on your PC.

[Dek]

>Is this new monitor connected to it's own separate power socket at the wall.

My new monitor came with the standard fixed cabling that goes into the graphics card. As well as this there is the power supply card that is connected to the DC on the wall.

I have a cable that has a male 3 pin at one end and a 3 female holed at the other. I have tried with this cable and still the power goes to the computer.


Yes I would have to agree with "Sylvander", and as a result am a little bemused as how power can go to the monitor if I have switched my computer off with this cable attached to the computer and the new monitor.

>It will not switch off unless you press and release the monitor's own power switch.

The strange thing here is that I wouldn’t mind to much if all I had to do was press the button and the monitor power goes completely, but if I press the button the monitor orange light still shows (real enigma). So as a result I am using the computer and when I switch of the computer the green light changes to orange and I go to bed (basically power still going to the monitor). Although the orange light shows the COMPUTER IS DIFFINITLEY SHUT DOWN AS THERE IS NO NOISE AND NO LIGHTS SHOW.

I think I would not be to concerned if I was told that the little green light will stay on, on the packaging of the box, lets face it we leave videos on, radios, microwaves etc... etc...

The mystifying and thus annoying event is that on the spare computer when I shut down the computer and with the cabling as mentioned the monitor shuts down and the orange light does not show.

[ErnieK]

My monitor (Samsung Sycmaster 753DF)does the same. When I power down my computer everything switches off except for the monitor. This goes to a flashing "Standby" light (same as your orange light). The monitor is connected to the output on the back of the PSU. When I press the button on the front of the monitor the blinking "standby" light goes out. If I switch of the switch, situated between the input and output sockets on the back of the PSU, the monitor goes comletely off after a few seconds

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Ernie

[Dek]

>When I press the button on the front of the monitor the blinking "standby" light goes out.

When I do this it changes from the orange light turns to green.

>If I switch of the switch, situated between the input and output sockets on the back of the PSU, the monitor goes comletely off after a few seconds

I don't think I have that switch on my monitor.

Question.

So far I have been leaving the monitor light on when I go to bed, is this okay for the monitor?

I would eventually like to switch off the monitor altogether when I go to shut down the computer. I know it can be done since when I had the new monitor attached to the spare computer it did just this.

[ErnieK]

Hi there Dek
If your monitor willnot switch off when you press the button (off/on switch) on the front of it then the switch must be faulty.

As for the monitor not turning off completely when computer is turned off (power still going to monitor and thereby putting monitor onto stanby mode - orange light/blinking light in my case) I think that this is a feature of modern computers. (hopefully someone will explain this point)
it is sfe to leave the monitor in this state and the power usage is minimal

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Ernie

[mjc]

Yes, it is a feature of the ATX form factor, some voltage is always gointo the the motherboard and some peripherals, standby voltage, so things can become live quicker.

Dek, you may actually be "off" with the light being orange....my TV set has a red LED on the front that is lit when the set is off, and it is off when I turn the set on; so the orange light may indicate "off" and pushing the switch is actually truning the monitor on!

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