Turn off screen while OS runs

Hello
Is there a way to turn off the screen of a Toshiba L300 19J while the system runs (plays music for example) ...?
Thank you.

But it can be programatically. Not only by OS... I thought Toshiba had an utility software for this.
Monitor power can be controlled:
SendMessage(ValidHWND, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, MONITOR_STATE);
Maybe I'll write a small app for this...
Would be nice if Flash Cards could do this by default...
Also i found an app specially for this porpouse: http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/07/20/how-to-manually-turn-off-notebook-or-laptop-lcd-screen/

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Resetting your device
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From: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
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hey there,
i got my 3gs on saturday (t-mobile, germany) and it worked great for exactly one day. on sunday i noticed that the phone woke up from time to time showing the turn off screen, which usually appears if you hold down the sleep button for some seconds (red slider at the top).
after that, the same screen popped up more often, it even interrupts other actions by appearing on top of applications like phone or mail.
sometimes the phone will make a screenshot of the current screen if i push the home button, so it seems like the sleep key is stuck.
the phone has no visible damages, the button looks normal and doesn't act jammed.
all this happens unpredictably so i can't reproduce it, but its happens pretty often by now and is anoying as ****
i tried restarting the phone, resetting the prefs, resetting everything, restoring in via itunes etc.
guess is have to send it back, i just wanted to ask for more ideas and leave a mark for other affected users.
regards
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