Putting the monitor to sleep

I have a large project that i want to run over night and io would like to turn the monitor off or make it sleep.The power button on the the side of the monitor(20") when pressed says "do you want to put the computer to sleep, restart, shut down"...is it refering to the computer or the monitor ?
In the prefs the monitor power button is set to sleep mode yet these options come up and then they refer to the computer ...confused ?
Thanks
Matt

"puts the system to sleep or wakes it" refers to both your monitor and G5.
to only turn your monitor on or off select option "turns the display on or off" does not affect G5.
no option to sleep monitor by itself with the power button on the display..
you can always use the sleep options in the Energy Saver window of system preferences then only your monitor will sleep and not your G5.
hope this helps.

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