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Authored by: turkchgo on Sep 26, '02 01:25:12AM

.... set energy saver to put your monitor to sleep and leave the hard disk and CPU alone? If you're worried about saving energy but still want the computer to run.

I've been doing this for years. I set the system to sleep never, use separate timing for Display sleep, usually 40 mins to 60 and uncheck the hard disk sleep which leaves that running forever too.

If I don't touch my computer for 40-60 mins, the monitor goes off or in standby mode, saving energy.

It's kind of a mute point these days for me since I have a flat panel Studio display that probably takes up all of 1 watt or something, but back when I was running a 19" CRT display, that thing sucked more juice that anything in the room.

The computer power supplies these days are doing quite a job at soaking up energy, but if you don't want to put that to sleep when not in use, at least you can power down just the monitor in energy saver and cut the consumption in half.

Adam



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