ratchet Posted August 16, 2006 CID Share Posted August 16, 2006 Unless I set the shutdown time really low, like five minutes, it really only arbitrarily shuts the monitor off, e.g. 20 minutes might take 35. Even set at five took over eight. When I test it at one minute it works great. I have a theory! I have a program called Weather Pulse and have enabled a Desklet temperature window that displays on the Desktop. I believe it checks the Weather Channel for data every five minutes and perhaps my pc senses this as the monitor being in use and restarts the time line every time it checks the WC. Appreciate any thoughts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted August 16, 2006 CID Share Posted August 16, 2006 Unless I set the shutdown time really low, like five minutes, it really only arbitrarily shuts the monitor off, e.g. 20 minutes might take 35. Even set at five took over eight. When I test it at one minute it works great. I have a theory! I have a program called Weather Pulse and have enabled a Desklet temperature window that displays on the Desktop. I believe it checks the Weather Channel for data every five minutes and perhaps my pc senses this as the monitor being in use and restarts the time line every time it checks the WC. Appreciate any thoughts! if i remember correctly, the computer would see a desktop weather ap as activity when it does check for weather updates. if you were to turn that off, does it still take longer then the time you selected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratchet Posted August 16, 2006 Author CID Share Posted August 16, 2006 I haven't tried that experiment. However, let me ask you this: I have an LCD monitor. At one time it was not good for a CRT to just have one image showing for a long time, however, with later technology, I believe that was no longer an issue. Does it make any difference if this LCD were to show the desktop for long periods? Thank You! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted August 16, 2006 CID Share Posted August 16, 2006 I haven't tried that experiment. However, let me ask you this: I have an LCD monitor. At one time it was not good for a CRT to just have one image showing for a long time, however, with later technology, I believe that was no longer an issue. Does it make any difference if this LCD were to show the desktop for long periods? Thank You! it doesnt matter how long the same image is displayed for on a LCD, there is no burn in, like on a CRT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratchet Posted August 16, 2006 Author CID Share Posted August 16, 2006 Thanks for the replies dlewis23!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 16, 2006 CID Share Posted August 16, 2006 LCD do burn-in.. Just not as often or as easly as CRT would.. I still wouldnt leave a stationary image on an LCD.. http://www.lifehacker.com/software/lcds/remove-lcd-image-burnin-146469.php http://erms.samsungusa.com/customer/sea/jsp/faqs/faqs_view.jsp?PG_ID=1&AT_ID=5588&PROD_SUB_ID=28&PROD_ID=-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted August 16, 2006 CID Share Posted August 16, 2006 LCD do burn-in.. Just not as often or as easly as CRT would.. I still wouldnt leave a stationary image on an LCD.. http://www.lifehacker.com/software/lcds/remove-lcd-image-burnin-146469.php http://erms.samsungusa.com/customer/sea/jsp/faqs/faqs_view.jsp?PG_ID=1&AT_ID=5588&PROD_SUB_ID=28&PROD_ID=-1 hmm didnt know that, ive actually had my lcd monitor on at work displaying the same image for about 3 1/2 weeks with no burn-in, The CRT next to it had burn in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest philp Posted August 17, 2006 CID Share Posted August 17, 2006 The POS Acer LCD I'm using at work has some burn in it. I didn't think it would happen either, but it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted August 17, 2006 CID Share Posted August 17, 2006 The POS Acer LCD I'm using at work has some burn in it. I didn't think it would happen either, but it does. maby its just happens easier on lower quality LCDS, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netmasta Posted August 17, 2006 CID Share Posted August 17, 2006 I found an article about it here. Burn-in on an LCD is called Image persistence. It doesn't seem, from reading the article that it happens often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted August 21, 2006 CID Share Posted August 21, 2006 I found an article about it here. Burn-in on an LCD is called Image persistence. It doesn't seem, from reading the article that it happens often. Thanks for the link , as I have just bought a lcd , and had turned off screensaver, it seems that Lcd will recover though, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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