nexionly Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Well do you leave your computer on all the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 yup i just reboot a lot to install things but my desktop machine is going strong at 16 days uptime so far my laptop im using more so thats only been up for 20 hours..:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kusanagi Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 hrmm saw a thread like this a LOOONG time ago... I used to leave my pc on 24/7, but not anymore ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locke Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 i leave my computer on when i'm letting it download like 100 songs from kazaalite.. wake up and listen to a whole slew of new songs.. or sometimes i let it defrag at night if i aint d/l anything or defraggin i just turn off my machine.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof. Frink Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 most of the time i leave it on... if i know im not going to be home all day and im not going to be downloading anything then i shut it off to save money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewelzz Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Yep 24/7/365. It's only off when rebooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimGuy Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 24/7/365. Damned thing never sleeps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbabyte Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 i keep mine on all the time......because actually it can do more harm turned off than turned on. I learned this the hard way. I went out of town for "3" days....so i figured i would shut my computer off...when i got back it wouldn't boot up....hard drive issues....happened to me twice......you think i would have learned the first time.... but i was like most of you, in thinking that if i turned it off it would be better for the computer.......Wrong! and you know what's really funny, is the drive that died would not work, as i tried so many times to get it to boot.......and then one day it worked.....and i still use it to this day......mind you i back my stuff up a whole lot more now........hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twist Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 i leave it one for the most part. if my gf is here for the night i turn it off. the fans bug her :p what a wimp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowdown Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 I leave my desktop computer on all the time. Its amazing, there's times when it goes a whole month without having to be turned off. But I'm just like Freeza where I have to reboot a lot after installing things and stuff like that. One reason why I keep my computer on all the time is because I run applications in the background that use idle cpu processing time. Since its going to a good cause why not run something like that in the background when the computer is doing nothing. Plus when only the computer is running and not the monitor or anything else like that it really doesn't take that much energy to run it. Plus I guess it helps when energy is free for me at the moment. I'm a little bit nicer to my new laptop I guess you could say. I try not to do the same thing with it because of the heat issues. Running the CPU on that at 100% results in its fans running really high all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tai Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 sometimes... depends if i'm downloadin or my friends are leechin anime & mvids from me :sleeping: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroChaos Veteran Posted April 30, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 30, 2002 24/7/52 :p (i like my units to agree) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 24/7.....every few nights i turn it off when I'm not in the middle of working on something or downloading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Magic_Man Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Didn't with my 98 / ME box but I do with XP as it is more stable :D The_Magic_Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 well i have 2 desktop machines networked using ics , so the ics server machine is on 24/7 ( i make sure i have stuff to download :D ) while my other gets turned off of a night. ( a little tip from my personal experience is make sure ur cpu fan isnt encased in dust like mine was , it stopped the fan spining completely , good job it was only a amd 400 k6-3 and didnt overheat like athlons do etc .... i think it took me about a week to realise why the machine was locking up randomly :o ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftboomer Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 24/7 Always running some sort of distributed computing via cable modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malechai Veteran Posted April 30, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 30, 2002 Originally posted by twist i leave it one for the most part. if my gf is here for the night i turn it off. the fans bug her :p what a wimp The fans bug mine too but I told her to deal with it LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
905punk Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 I try to keep it 24/7 cuz i run a webserver for my mp3's for my website :p my current stats are (taken from my mIRC Script i wrote :p) ?Uptime? 2days 14hrs 30mins 17secs ?Record? 1wk 4hrs 31mins 1sec ?OS Installed? 15wks 6days 13hrs 16mins 3secs ago ?Connection? www.905punk.cjb.net via WAN Miniport (PPPOE) @ 10Mb/s for 2d 14h 25m 11s (1214.04MB up, 171.98MB down) * Skatan[AHU] is using System Info Add-On v1.41 by Skatan[AHU] - http://905punk.cjb.net :Dbr />:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunaC Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Since I installed XP I leave it on, before that (with win 98 or ME) it would crash before I ever got to the 12 hour mark (and if I got that far I considered myself lucky LOL)... so I couldn't just leave it. People who say it's best to leave it on and the ones that say it's better to turn it off both have pretty good arguments supporting their reason... I just find the sound of the fan kinda comforting ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daybreak Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 I turn mine off every time I'm not using it coz (a) Electricity isn't free where I live. (b) Heat, heat, heat. My router, cable modem and system heat the room up pretty fast.. and air conditioning isn't cheap either ( see point a )... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 yes 24/7 xp lets me do this :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintamanate Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 its on all the time. except for power outages and vacations. will reboot if necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trashpickinman Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 same as locke, I only keep it on if im downloading stuff off kazaa or Im defragging. Other than that I try to remember to turn it off. but I have it set to turn on at 07:00, well before I wake up, so when I do wake up and get online I dont have to wait for it to boot up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 30, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 30, 2002 I leave mine on all the time. Sleeping near an 8000 rpm fan is fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deryck Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Turn on the computer on Sunday mornings where I do maintanance work to it, download, rebbot etc. And leave on all week until Saturday night where I turn it off, I run a drug design program so I just left it running. In addition, I usually work on my computer a various times so it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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