Peter Garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I wonder what the pros and cons are of leaving ones domestic grade home computer >powered up continually. > > I have one of lionels dual cpu celeron smp motherboards. > > Is it better to power up and down only when using it, or leave it running >continuously? > Is it better to never power it down, even?
As others have said, it's generally fine to leave it running 24/7 (as I do) as powerup triggers most problems. Although one to watch out for is fans - I've had a couple of power supply fans begin to fail after about 2years, and you usually only notice when it starts shutting down and/or smelling funny. If you've got a bios/psu combo that can watch the fans, you should be ok though. And old desktop 486 at a previous place of emplyoment was running for about 3 years continously, having been turned off for a total of about 6 hours the entire time. Of course it was the power supply fan that failed eventually - a replacement brought it back into service. -- Ben Buxton - Random Network Person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
