Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: boyland@sequoia.Berkeley.EDU (John B. Boyland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Turning off monitors Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1741@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 22 Feb 91 18:31:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: 19 Feb 91 19:27:46 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 45, message 12 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu The Sparc manuals say that the monitor should be turned on before the system unit is turned on and turned off after the system unit is turned off. In the interests of saving energy, we would like to turn off the monitors when the machines are unused overnight. Does anyone know why this shouldn't be done? Is there any official Sun position? [[Ed's Note: Turning off your system monitor has no effect on the actual CPU (unless it's a VT100 hooked up as a console :) :)); however, turning it on and off will probably reduce the lifetime of your monitors. It seems like this was discussed once in Sunspots, but I can't find the issues :(. -bdg]] John Boyland boyland@sequoia.Berkeley.EDU Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com