New Dell 2400 can't get monitor to turn off (standby?)

[russ1150]

Newbee- I want my monitor to turn off (go into standby) after 15minutes. I set the "power schemes" in the "display" control panel to turn off the power in "after 15 minutes" and the turn off hard disks "never". The monitor will not go "black" and the yellow light on the monitor stays green. The unit will go into the power saver mode but not the stand by mode. Can some one help???
Pleeeeeeze.
Russ

[Play_The_0dds]

call dell, it is new, they give free support. this is probably a bios setting...so call them for instructions.

[prs4u]

russ1150,

Some monitors take 30sec to 1min to realise they should "Standby" as this is a new machine I would suggest you contact Dell and inform them of your issue, if this was a normal issue that "suddenly happened" I would suggest various other fixes.

By the way a "Standby" results in ALL the (hardware understanding) system telling all units connected to "Shut down all physical moters" until they get a message to start them up again. Because monitors are not "moters" they really on there own sofware to shut off when not fed a signal from the computer. If anyone reading this would like to add - feel free, I'm willing to learn stuff.