View Power-On Hours for Alienware OLEDs

[Lurick]

I have the Alienware 34" DWF monitor and it's been driving me bonkers not being able to see the total power on hours. After some googling I finally stumbled upon the command line references for Dell's Display Manager (DDM) utility, which doesn't show in the GUI but does with a command line argument.

 

Open cmd as administrator and then:
mkdir C:\temp
cd C:\Program Files\Dell\Dell Display Manager 2
ddm.exe /Log c:\temp\ddm.txt /1:ReadMonitorActiveHours

Open c:\temp\ddm.txt to see total hours

 

Reference:

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000060112/what-is-dell-display-manager

[NinJake]

I've got the older one but non-oled. Almost don't want to check the total hours as I'm already surprised the screen hasn't had any issues yet! ..... knocks on wood. My only question (not at home to test now) is, did you have to download the dell display manager at some point or did windows auto install that through updates?

[Lurick]

9 minutes ago, NinJake said:

I've got the older one but non-oled. Almost don't want to check the total hours as I'm already surprised the screen hasn't had any issues yet! ..... knocks on wood. My only question (not at home to test now) is, did you have to download the dell display manager at some point or did windows auto install that through updates?

I installed it myself, Windows didn't push that down.