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Author: desgnrdesgnr Date: Aug 31, 2006 06:41
What will give my PC the longest life ?
Do you leave your pc on 24/7
or shutdown every day.
If i leave it on are there any settings i should make.
Please advise ?
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Author: Will DennyWill Denny Date: Aug 31, 2006 06:55
Hi
I leave my PCs on 24/7 and only reboot them when necessary - no problems.
If you do leave the PC on 24/7 you might like to have the monitor power down
when you know that you won't be using it and also overnight.
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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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news:OcmiqMQzGHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...> What will give my PC the longest life ?
> Do you leave your pc on 24/7
> or shutdown every day.
> If i leave it on are there any settings i should make.
> Please advise ?
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Author: Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/UserMike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User Date: Aug 31, 2006 09:13
24/7 up and running.. monitor closed down when not required..
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"desgnr" verizon.net> wrote in message
news:OcmiqMQzGHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...> What will give my PC the longest life ?
> Do you leave your pc on 24/7
> or shutdown every day.
> If i leave it on are there any settings i should make.
> Please advise ?
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Date: Aug 31, 2006 11:47
> What will give my PC the longest life ?
How long are you planning on using this PC?
Personally, my hardware has always outlived its usefulnes
--that is, long
before any of the hardware actually died. I have a small pile of perfectly
functional 1, 2, 4, 10 and 20GB hard drives, among other things. They're
not even worth the power they'd draw if I put them into a machine...not to
mention anything about performance.
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Date: Aug 31, 2006 16:35
"desgnr" verizon.net> wrote in message news:OcmiqMQzGHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...> What will give my PC the longest life ?
> Do you leave your pc on 24/7
> or shutdown every day.
> If i leave it on are there any settings i should make.
> Please advise ?
That really depends. Do you pay for electricity or is it included in the rent?
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Alec S.
news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
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Author: HEMI-PoweredHEMI-Powered Date: Aug 31, 2006 20:59
Today, desgnr made these interesting comments ...
> What will give my PC the longest life ?
> Do you leave your pc on 24/7
> or shutdown every day.
> If i leave it on are there any settings i should make.
> Please advise ?
>
My PC has 5 - count 'em, 5 fans and its Asus motherboard came
with a neat utility running in the background that monitors all
the critical temps and will auto shut your system down -
correctly - before it fries.
All other things being equal, but they seldom are, more damage is
done to electronics by startup/shutdown electrical spikes, noise,
etc. than the loss of longevity just letting it run. I run my
24/7 and only restart Windows XP Pro SP2 if I really need to, as
in after a critical update.
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Author: HEMI-PoweredHEMI-Powered Date: Aug 31, 2006 21:01
Today, Will Denny made these interesting comments ...
> Hi
>
> I leave my PCs on 24/7 and only reboot them when necessary -
> no problems. If you do leave the PC on 24/7 you might like to
> have the monitor power down when you know that you won't be
> using it and also overnight.
>
I do turn my 21" Samsung LCD monitor off when I'm not in front of
the PC. The LCDs do "wear out" plus it throws some heat into an
over-crowded office with only one A/C outlet. Haven't had nary a
problem with the monitor since I bought it 15 months ago, but then,
I don't just snap it on and off at random. I work until I get tired
of "mousing" (as my better half calls it), turn the monitor off and
go do something else.
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Author: HEMI-PoweredHEMI-Powered Date: Aug 31, 2006 21:05
Today, Alec S. made these interesting comments ...
> "desgnr" verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:OcmiqMQzGHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> What will give my PC the longest life ?
>> Do you leave your pc on 24/7
>> or shutdown every day.
>> If i leave it on are there any settings i should make.
>> Please advise ?
>
>
> That really depends. Do you pay for electricity or is it
> included in the rent?
>
There are people who feel it a duty to be green, but as I drive a
performance car for the sheer fun of driving hot iron again 30
years after muscle cars went the way of T-Rex, I don't much care
how many extra watts my PC consumes. I /hate/ hibernation, so I
don't cotton to that, either.
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Date: Aug 31, 2006 23:17
"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message news:Xns98311081E743ReplyScoreTag@216.196.97.136...
> Today, Alec S. made these interesting comments ...
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>> "desgnr" verizon.net> wrote in message
>> news:OcmiqMQzGHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...>>> What will give my PC the longest life ?
>>> Do you leave your pc on 24/7
>>> or shutdown every day.
>>> If i leave it on are there any settings i should make.
>>> Please advise ?
>>
>>
>> That really depends. Do you pay for electricity or is it
>> included in the rent?
>>
> There are people who feel it a duty to be green, but as I drive a
> performance car for the sheer fun of driving hot iron again 30
> years after muscle cars went the way of T-Rex, I don't much care
> how many extra watts my PC consumes. I /hate/ hibernation, so I
> don't cotton to that, either. ...
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Author: HEMI-PoweredHEMI-Powered Date: Sep 1, 2006 05:27
Today, Alec S. made these interesting comments ...
>>> That really depends. Do you pay for electricity or is it
>>> included in the rent?
>>>
>> There are people who feel it a duty to be green, but as I
>> drive a performance car for the sheer fun...
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