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  • 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.

    • 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.

  • I have a cable box with a switch on my desk. When I turn it off everything is off.

    • 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.

    • i just unplug everything

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