[Shotimes] OT - Computer- to turn off or not

[Erik Balser]

That's why most of the work computers in the other peoples posts were having
failing monitors and HD's.  They need to be set in a power management
function so the monitors turn off and the HDs spin down.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul L Fisher" <sho@paul-fisher.com>
To: <bjshov8@comcast.net>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT - Computer- to turn off or not


> My monitor turns itself off after 3 hours of no activity, home and work.
My
> hard drives spin themselves down after 4 hours of no activity. The only
> thing that is truly running on either machine is the power supply fan.
>
> I still have my 11 year old 15" monitor "on" (see above) 24x7 and my old
> Acer has had no failures.
>
> Only problems I have at work are power supply fans getting noisy.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Shotimes] OT - Computer- to turn off or not
>
> This will be an eternal argument- do you turn it off or leave it running.
I
> have been working with PC's about as long as anybody and have yet to see a
> clear answer to this.  My procedure at home is to turn on my PC when I
need
> it, then leave it on until I'm certain that I'm through with it for the
day,
> then turn it off.  It's usually turned on for a couple of hours every day,
> but only turned on once per day.  OTOH our computers at work run 24/7.
Some
> years back I let my home computer run 24/7 also.
>
> Here are some observations, certainly not scientific studies or
conclusions
> of any kind:
> 1)  My monitor left on 24/7 seemed to die an early death.
> 2)  Our computers running 24/7 seem to have more hard drive failures than
my
> home computer.  However my sampling at home is 1 out of 1 still running.
> Our sampling at work is 3 out of 5 failed.
> 3)  Win98SE will work fine 24/7 but needs to be restarted every 3 or 4
days
> or it will run out of resources.
>
> > Who in their right mind shuts down a PC? I leave mine running 24x7 and
> just
> > let the daily (joke) security patch updates restart the PC for me.
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