Re: To Turn Off or Not to Turn Off
From: Big Mac (no-email-in-usenet_at_zzz.org)
Date: 06/06/04
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Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 21:24:33 -0700
Natasha, I'm no expert, but I have read before that the cause of your
problems might be your hard drive beginning to fail - it isn't getting
up to speed enough in the boot process where the computer can read it
correctly. Something like that anyway. Is your computer newer or
older? Hard drives can slowly fade away rather than just fail all at
once, especially if they're getting old.
But that doesn't say why your computer went batty after leaving it on
for a weekend.
I'd have to agree with the turn it on in the morning/off at night
theory, of course with your monitor powering down after 15 or 20
minutes of non-use. There are at least two lines of thinking - you
pick: Some people say that leaving it on all of the time might
contribute to a hard drive failing earlier in it's life than if you
turned it off - but then there are those who say leaving it on all of
the time doesn't put a start-up strain on it & it lasts longer.
I am not sure what they say about any strain on a CPU or memory -
these are non-mechanical & it shouldn't make a difference, unless heat
can get to them, or the other way around is that powering-on puts a
strain on them with a surge of electricity.
Big Mac
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 05:29:36 -0700, "Natasha"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Thank you all for your advice. The reason I am asking is
>that my computer often gives me problems when trying to
>start it in the morning, like a lot of times it will
>start halfway through the process of starting up and just
>never actually get up and running, it will run the memory
>test and whatever else and then the screen will just go
>blank and I will have to restart it. And then last
>weekend I left it on over the long weekend and when I got
>back it was all flipped out and we ended up having to do
>a paralell install of the operating system. But now even
>though we did that still this morning it would not start
>up all the way on the first try. I personally have never
>had any problems with a computer that I left on
>frequently for long periods of time and I was under the
>impression that starting the computer took as much energy
>as leaving it running over night. But someone told my
>boss that it's bad for the computer to leave it running.
>Does anyone know what computer manufacturers usually
>reccomend about this situation? It's kind of hard to
>decide what to do when everyone is saying it's a matter
>of personal choice!
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