You could look in your BIOS and see. And yes the operating system can
put the monitor in standby. The issue is whether the software you are
using keeps the system awake! So the sure answer is to do as Malke said
and just press the power button on the monitor.

d.vasant@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a AMD 3000+ 939-pin processor with asus a8n-e motherboard
> and geforce 6200 graphics card with turbocache.I usually download lots
> of software from internet and my pc will be running day & night. I like
> to put my system in maximum power save mode such way it consumes
> minimal power. In power save mode only processor, network card, HDD
> should be on and alll other devices especially my graphics card should
> me in stand by mode. Is ther any bios or control panel option to do
> this?
>
> reagrds,
> vasanth
>