Disabling Monitor Poweroff, but still powers off?

[Guest]

# HAIL to the person who can HELP!
Sorry all the words, but I want to help you understand what I have covered
already.

Quick Problem Scetch overview:

20 PC's = All identical
Some Mon's remain on Scrn-Svr, but others power-off/standby.
Need to have all on Scrn-Svr permanently
Ctrl-PANEL, ScrnSAV-Properties & Reg fix don't help
What else? (How force Monitors to remain on.)
Oh Yeh! I have disabled Sys Standby in registry too...

My Problem Scenario:
I have a computer room with 20 new computers. All identical (Xp Pro). Whiled
logged-out, about half goes to scrn savers and the other half powers-off
monitors. I don't want this. > Need them all to stay on screen saver. Since
logged-out, cntrl panel power-options are irrelevant, right? After some
research, I changed the registry values to disable "monitor power off at

My half-way fix:

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] "PowerOffActive"="0"

Remaining problem:
Half of those pc's worked like a charm and other half still
powers-off...looks like StandBy though, since the power lights on the Mon's
don't switch off (flickers).

Question:
Anything else I can do to disable monitor power-off besides throwing it off
a mountain (hehee)?

Jo

 

[Keith Willcocks]

# HAIL to the person who can HELP!
Sorry all the words, but I want to help you understand what I have covered
already.

Quick Problem Scetch overview:

20 PC's = All identical
Some Mon's remain on Scrn-Svr, but others power-off/standby.
Need to have all on Scrn-Svr permanently
Ctrl-PANEL, ScrnSAV-Properties & Reg fix don't help
What else? (How force Monitors to remain on.)
Oh Yeh! I have disabled Sys Standby in registry too...

My Problem Scenario:
I have a computer room with 20 new computers. All identical (Xp Pro).
Whiled
logged-out, about half goes to scrn savers and the other half powers-off
monitors. I don't want this. > Need them all to stay on screen saver.
Since
logged-out, cntrl panel power-options are irrelevant, right? After some
research, I changed the registry values to disable "monitor power off at

My half-way fix:

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] "PowerOffActive"="0"

Remaining problem:
Half of those pc's worked like a charm and other half still
powers-off...looks like StandBy though, since the power lights on the
Mon's
don't switch off (flickers).

Question:
Anything else I can do to disable monitor power-off besides throwing it
off
a mountain (hehee)?

Have you checked the monitors themselves. I had a couple over the years
that had their own power off facility totally independent of the computer.
They hibernated themselves just like they do under power manager and came
back up on a keypress or mouse movement. The control was within the
monitors own onscreen menu facility along with picture size, geometry etc.

 

[Guest]

Thanks a mill Keith! Haven't tried this. I will check this a.s.a.p. Will
let you know.

Jo

# HAIL to the person who can HELP!
Sorry all the words, but I want to help you understand what I have covered
already.

Quick Problem Scetch overview:

20 PC's = All identical
Some Mon's remain on Scrn-Svr, but others power-off/standby.
Need to have all on Scrn-Svr permanently
Ctrl-PANEL, ScrnSAV-Properties & Reg fix don't help
What else? (How force Monitors to remain on.)
Oh Yeh! I have disabled Sys Standby in registry too...

NEXT - My DETAILED PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:>

My Problem Scenario:
I have a computer room with 20 new computers. All identical (Xp Pro).
Whiled
logged-out, about half goes to scrn savers and the other half powers-off
monitors. I don't want this. > Need them all to stay on screen saver.
Since
logged-out, cntrl panel power-options are irrelevant, right? After some
research, I changed the registry values to disable "monitor power off at

My half-way fix:

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] "PowerOffActive"="0"

Remaining problem:
Half of those pc's worked like a charm and other half still
powers-off...looks like StandBy though, since the power lights on the
Mon's
don't switch off (flickers).

Question:
Anything else I can do to disable monitor power-off besides throwing it
off
a mountain (hehee)?

Have you checked the monitors themselves. I had a couple over the years
that had their own power off facility totally independent of the computer.
They hibernated themselves just like they do under power manager and came
back up on a keypress or mouse movement. The control was within the
monitors own onscreen menu facility along with picture size, geometry etc.