Raildrivers and Screen Saves...Wut?

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JIb228

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So here's my set up with Windows 10. After 20 min of no activity, my screen saver should turn off my monitors. (Yes, I said monitors as I run multiple.) And it works as it should.

Unless that is, I have my Raildriver plugged in to any USB port.

Out of curiosity, has any one else experienced this? Is there a solution that doesn't involve unplugging my Raildriver after every use?
 
whitepass said:
You do not need a screen saver unless you are using an old CRT.
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Uhmmm....Yes I do? I dont want my desk top burned into my monitors, even if the are LCD. On top of that, my computer is set to sleep at 2 hours of in activity. This lowers the power consumption for both my PC and my monitors. Yes, I could just turn them off when I leave the room. However, there are many times I leave and get caught up with other things and dont get around to shutting them down.
 
I put my PC to "Sleep" when ever I walk away, and plan on not using it for a while

I "Eject" "Safely Remove" and unplug the AC power cord to my external hard drive, every time I shut down Trainz

Perhaps there is a similar "eject" or "disconnect" for your Raildriver under "Computer" view devices ?
 
cascaderailroad said:
I put my PC to "Sleep" when ever I walk away, and plan on not using it for a while

I "Eject" "Safely Remove" and unplug the AC power cord to my external hard drive, every time I shut down Trainz

Perhaps there is a similar "eject" or "disconnect" for your Raildriver under "Computer" view devices ?
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Problem with that is I often dont know how long I'll be a gone. Example, I got up to walk next door to the sandwich shop which should have only been 15 min. I ran into a friend of mine and spent 2 hours hanging out away from home.

Hence why my computers automatic timed services that are meant to reduce the amount of work I should do are a nice thing. Shouldn't have to unplug things, go into system settings and eject things.
 
You can not "burn in" on a LCD only on a CRT where you have a screen made of phosphorus material that can take a "set".
 
whitepass said:
Alternate facts.
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I witness screen burn on HUNDREDS of screens, both LED and LCD and even CRT's, at work daily. I work in a casino where we have LED, LCD, and CRT displays on slot machines. These all have some level of screen burn in from displaying the same image 24/7. Or in the break room's where our TV's have the Fox News or CNN logo burned into one corner of them because they are on those channels 90% of the time.

But sure, you are 100% right, cant get screen burn on LCD screens. Thank you for ZERO help there buck-o.
 
JIb228 said:
I witness screen burn on HUNDREDS of screens, both LED and LCD and even CRT's, at work daily. I work in a casino where we have LED, LCD, and CRT displays on slot machines. These all have some level of screen burn in from displaying the same image 24/7. Or in the break room's where our TV's have the Fox News or CNN logo burned into one corner of them because they are on those channels 90% of the time.

But sure, you are 100% right, cant get screen burn on LCD screens. Thank you for ZERO help there buck-o.
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I have seen this too in the past as a PC Tech. Some machines in the R&D labs were setup to run constant testing and the users never turned off the monitors. In the end the result was icons and windows melted into the phosphors on CRTs, or dead pixel blotches on the LCD displays since LED displays were not available at the time.

To prevent that on my own computers, I have created a custom power management profile. I enable the High Performance profile, and do not allow the computer to sleep, however, I enable the turn off display after 30 minutes. This works well for me, as it turns off the display, but does not disable USB devices I have hooked up to the system.
 
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I just put m PC to "Sleep" whenever I am expecting to go out of the room for longer than 10 min, ie: to do the dish's, or go outside to do a: DDRS&RM (dawg dud recon search and rescue mission) ... etc ...
 
Getting back to the question at hand...............for whatever reason it seems to reside with the USB driver for your product....I came across the same issue with my Xbox 360 controller left in the USB port. I could not figure out why my screen saver would not come on until I removed the controller. Sure enough 10 minutes later the spinning 3D text appeared. So I tried it again to make sure, with the controller in no screensaver without it I have my screensaver back. Thank Microsoft for another brilliant annoyance................
 
It depends upon the hardware. Some devices require continuous polling and interrupts to inform the operating system that they are plugged in. The simple solution, if unplugging is an annoyance, is to turn off the displays manually.

If this is not the case, then the other solution, which I've seen in some power management settings somewhere, requires some advanced power management features such as turning off response to ports and wake up events. I think is in the BIOS, but I can't remember where and it depends upon the motherboard manufacturer and whether they will include these settings or not.
 
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