What operating system? Vista's default for the onscreen Shutdown button is Sleep so the monitor would be in energy saving mode. Go to Power Options and change it to Shutdown. While you're there, check all the advanced settings in the theme you're using and change to your preferences.
Power Options has no entry "Shut Down" only ShutDdown at any time after "1 minute to 5 hours" and I would not care for any of those as I wouldnt want it to shut down while I am in the midst of something.
This is my fourth Dell and the first with this, to me, a defect.
The Dell Studio XPS 8000 is a Desktop Computer. The CPU and the Monitor each has it's own power supplied by a 110 volt source. Think of it as two table lamps, when you cut one of the lamps off the other stays on. This is what is happening with your Dell Studio XPS 8000, you turned the CPU off, the monitor the other lamp remains on. One way to overcome this is to plug the monitor and CPU into the same Spike Protector and then when you turn the Spike Protector off you turn the CPU and the monitor off at the same time.
No there is not, nor has there ever been this feature. The units like another poster has mentioned are independant. The only thing that will happen is the monitor will go into the loss of signal mode, as the signal from the computer has terminated.
what I do is when I see the shutting down the computer screen I turn off the monitor
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March 6th, 2010 11:00
What operating system? Vista's default for the onscreen Shutdown button is Sleep so the monitor would be in energy saving mode. Go to Power Options and change it to Shutdown. While you're there, check all the advanced settings in the theme you're using and change to your preferences.
dadol
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March 6th, 2010 11:00
Appreciate the fast reply Mary,
Windows 7 Ultimate.
Power Options has no entry "Shut Down" only ShutDdown at any time after "1 minute to 5 hours" and I would not care for any of those as I wouldnt want it to shut down while I am in the midst of something.
This is my fourth Dell and the first with this, to me, a defect.
Regards,
oldad
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March 6th, 2010 12:00
The Dell Studio XPS 8000 is a Desktop Computer. The CPU and the Monitor each has it's own power supplied by a 110 volt source. Think of it as two table lamps, when you cut one of the lamps off the other stays on. This is what is happening with your Dell Studio XPS 8000, you turned the CPU off, the monitor the other lamp remains on. One way to overcome this is to plug the monitor and CPU into the same Spike Protector and then when you turn the Spike Protector off you turn the CPU and the monitor off at the same time.
dadol
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March 6th, 2010 18:00
Thanks Gator,
I understand that.
So there is no way to click Start, Shut Down and have the monitor shut down completely at the same time with the desktop.?
Regards,
oldad
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March 6th, 2010 18:00
No there is not, nor has there ever been this feature. The units like another poster has mentioned are independant. The only thing that will happen is the monitor will go into the loss of signal mode, as the signal from the computer has terminated.
what I do is when I see the shutting down the computer screen I turn off the monitor