I LOVE DISPLAY PORT I SWEAR

  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    17 hours ago

    For some reason, if I turn my ceiling fan off, my monitor backlight turns on for a second before turning back off. It’s fairly consistent, and I have no idea why.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      15 hours ago

      Potentially a brownout on the circuit causing the monitor to turn on like its power has just been connected, before turning back off when it sees the computer sending the monitor sleep signal.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    19 hours ago

    Pull the plug out, or if you’re like me. Attach a lamp chord switch to the chord of the monitor and just turn it off that way. Can’t turn itself on if it doesn’t have any power.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        15 hours ago

        If we’re talking about a monitor which keeps turning itself on or eliminating vampire loads from standby mode, that isn’t going to help is it?

        • fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          12·
          7 hours ago

          Monitors only* turn themselves back on if they’re not explicitly turned off using the power button. Also, vampire loads aren’t really a thing anymore. You can’t even save $1 a year that way on any halfway modern monitor.

          * That is unless they’re really truly broken.

    • Malatesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      1 day ago

      I had power buttons on one set of monitors in the worst possible spot, so I would leave them on after turning off my computer and just let them sleep. I quickly found out that every 15 minutes or so the monitors would come out of sleep shining all the glorious light into my face as I was trying to sleep. I since fixed the issue by turning off the power at the outlet.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      That also works too. I modified the chord on a problematic monitor to have a lamp chord switch on the cable. If I want the monitor to not turn itself on, I just flip the switch on the chord off and it can’t turn itself on anymore. Worked well because it has a two prong chord same as lamps do.

  • egonallanon@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    Oh is it display port causing this? I’ve been trying to work out why one of my monitors does this even whole the pc is off for a while.

      • egonallanon@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        I’m having this issue on my windows box so that won’t be related. It’s also happening when the machine is fully turned off so I wouldnt expect any drivers to be doing anything.