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June 21st, 2005 09:00
Recommended Power Settings?
I set up my new 8400 on Friday and have been installing hardware and software ever since. There have been a number of weird blue screen errors and other start up and switch user accounts problems--the system freezes at times. Trying to determine the source of the problems.
On my old machine I always set the power options to go to screen saver after 25 mins, monitor off after two hours, hard disks off after four hours, and sleep and standby never. That worked fine until I got the 2001FP, which ran VGA on that machine--it sometimes didn't want to come back on, forcing me to restart.
With the 8400 this problem has been much worse--I found that if the monitor had gone off it just would not come back on. Today I changed the power settings to go to SS after 25 mins and set monitor off, hard disks off, sleep, and standby all to "never."
Is there any potential danger in using these settings?
On my old machine I always set the power options to go to screen saver after 25 mins, monitor off after two hours, hard disks off after four hours, and sleep and standby never. That worked fine until I got the 2001FP, which ran VGA on that machine--it sometimes didn't want to come back on, forcing me to restart.
With the 8400 this problem has been much worse--I found that if the monitor had gone off it just would not come back on. Today I changed the power settings to go to SS after 25 mins and set monitor off, hard disks off, sleep, and standby all to "never."
Is there any potential danger in using these settings?
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SR45
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dg27
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June 21st, 2005 10:00
Thanks for your reply. I've found that setting the monitor to go off at all tends to freeze the system, which is why I have it set on "never." It kicks into screen saver after 25 mins.
I am not concerned about power consumption at all--only concern is whether these "never settings" could damage my system in any way.
dg
SR45
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June 21st, 2005 12:00
I don't use screen saver at all on my systems, and is not necessary for today's screens, but sorry to hear of the glitch you are having. I don't have a clue about what it might be, however, someone around here just might, so hang on for awhile and lets see...Good luck
i9300 Pent M 2.0 Ghz 533 FSB
WUXGA Screen 17 inch
1 Gb Dual channel DDR-2
nVidia 6800 Go 256 Mb
Windows XP Home SP-2
60 Gb 7,200 Hard Drive
8XDVD burner
Wireless 2915 / 350 BlueTooth wireless
Dim 4400 2.6 Ghz 400 FSB
1 Gb DDR 2100 Memory
Windows XP Home SP-2
20 Gb 7,200 Hard Drive
17 inch 1703 FP LCD
48Xcdrw
dg27
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June 21st, 2005 12:00
Didn't know that--still like them, though. Thanks.
dg
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June 21st, 2005 15:00