Smart power strip not turning everything else off after turning off PC

[emb]

Whenever I turn off my PC, my marquee, monitor, and speakers are still on. It seems like the PC is still drawing power because the marquee, monitor and speakers do not turn off until I unplug the power cord on the PC.

Is there some kind of bios setting that can be adjusted for this? I went into my power management and disabled "Power On by Ring", "Resume by Alarm", and "Power on by keyboard". So far, those were the only settings I found which were relevant.

I am using a "GIGABYTE GA-G41MT-S2P LGA 775 Intel G41 Micro ATX Intel" Motherboard (award bios).

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[emb]

Nevermind, I figured it out. There is a tiny dial on the smart switch that needed to be adjusted. It must be for the power threshold.

[HaRuMaN]

It must be for the power threshold.

Yup

[Woodshop Flunky]

I bought a smart strip, but it doesn't work at all for me.  The speakers have an on/off switch that doubles as volume.  I wanted to hook the speakers to the control outlet so that when I switch on the speakers, the monitor, marquee, and LEDs would all come on.  That way I could turn off everything except the PC so I don't have this major "night light" running in our hall.

Anyhow, I can't get the smart strip to work.  The only way I can get it to automatically turn other stuff on and off is to hook up my drill press or some other higher energy requirement item.  The speakers just don't draw enough juice I guess; even after adjusting the dial on the side.

[Donkbaca]

Why do you want to keep your PC on?

[BobA]

Speakers do not use much power if they are not making sound.  The power draw of the amp is minimal if quiet.  Use your PC to control all the other bits.

[Woodshop Flunky]

Why do you want to keep your PC on?

Because I'm a doofus and don't know any better? 

What I would like, but am not sure how to do it is... have everything "safely" shut down (or just go black) with a single button push.

So, I've looked into it a little more and wonder... If my PC is in the control outlet of the smart strip, and I put my PC in sleep mode, will that turn off the switchable outlets, and if my PC comes out of sleep mode will that turn on the switchable outlets? 

I think that would be the smoothest way to turn all the lights out... if it works.  I'll test it I guess.

[Donkbaca]

How old is your PC?  Most newer-ish PCs have power management options that let you power down with a single button.  My P4 supports this.  in XP, go to Control Panel, Power Management, and in one of the tabs it asks you what you want the computer to do when you push the power button, one of the is shutdown.  So, yeah, PC power switch hacked and hooked up standard arcade button on the top-rear of the cab. press that button, everything turns on, push that button, windows shuts down safely, everything turns off.

[Woodshop Flunky]

How old is your PC?  Most newer-ish PCs have power management options that let you power down with a single button.  My P4 supports this.  in XP, go to Control Panel, Power Management, and in one of the tabs it asks you what you want the computer to do when you push the power button, one of the is shutdown.  So, yeah, PC power switch hacked and hooked up standard arcade button on the top-rear of the cab. press that button, everything turns on, push that button, windows shuts down safely, everything turns off.

If that will trip the smart strip, then I think I'll end up with that option... sounds the best to me.

[Donkbaca]

That's how my setup is rigged.