monitor burn in mode?

hello all , just wondering about a box that I get on screen when at rest, as follows,
when I leave my pc for a short while and it goes to, at rest ( black screen ) it displays a purple box with the words...BURN IN MODE...
it has been doing this for some time now but does not seem to have any adverse affects with the operation of the system am not up to speed with many things pc so would welcome comments from members,
thank you
Allanjay

 

Could this possibly be a screensaver? Is this a new problem? Sorry about the joke on the other post. We do know how to be serious here, too! Welcome to the BBS! One of the mods may move this to hardware.

Johanna

 

burn in mode

hi thanks for post backs
Johanna, no not a screen saver and been getting it for several months ,so dont appear to be bad in any way
joke in previouse post? was I had and done ? no prob, .......say do ya think the clean up may move it lol

PETER, no, nil in add & remove, am living with it just thought some one may have known what it was,
cheers

 

What monitor type do you have?

I have a mitsubishi, and the monitor itself has intelligence when it sees a black screen(aka my 'blank screen' screensaver), it will throw a rather ugly yellow screen up with similar verbage, and then go to sleep. I beleive you are seeing your monitor turn off the guns to prevent burn in, and its expected and welcome behavior.

Do you have power saving options enabled, if you tweak it to turn off your monitor after the same time as your screensaver, does it take a nap?

 

burn in mode

hello Joe ,
have a Viewmaster monitor
do not have power save sellected ( that I know of )
will go with your opinion as it sounds most likely,
thanks again all,
Allan