I'm curious about this as well. My monitor docs say that repeated degaussing (T <= 20 min) is bad, so if your monitor does that on "reboot" maybe this is something to consider? Anyway, as I tell my students: no idea, but tell me if you find out. -chris Tim Wood <tleathley@yahoo.com> writes: > I have yet to decide whether the life of the monitor is affected by > cycling it into the standby mode.