Myself: I have my monitor set to go off in 15 min. of no use. Hard drive to go off after 30 min. of no use. Shut down everything at my desk main power switch if I'm not going to be using the computer in the next couple hours.
I have used this same procedure with my five year old IBM and it has had no hardware problems.
Leaving on is a waste of power. (money, unless you get free power) Also the fans are pulling dust into your computer when they are running. Just no reason to leave a computer on when no needed.
Dayton
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olefin56
689 Posts
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June 14th, 2002 19:00
Hi
Myself:
I have my monitor set to go off in 15 min. of no use.
Hard drive to go off after 30 min. of no use.
Shut down everything at my desk main power switch if I'm
not going to be using the computer in the next couple hours.
I have used this same procedure with my five year old IBM
and it has had no hardware problems.
Leaving on is a waste of power. (money, unless you get free power)
Also the fans are pulling dust into your computer when they are running.
Just no reason to leave a computer on when no needed.
Dayton
Dimension 8200 @ 1.8GHz
In Service 12/06/01
512MB RDRAM, 40GB, HD
21 in. P1130 Trinitron Monitor
64MB NIVIDIA GeForce2 MX
Windows XP Home
Toshiba PCX1100 Cable Modem
Linksys BEF SR41 Router
IE 6.02, Communicator 4.9 and 6.2
Zone Alarm
Criminals Love Gun Control
Denny Denham
18.8K Posts
0
June 14th, 2002 19:00
Take a look at the opinion here.
Jake02324
579 Posts
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June 14th, 2002 23:00
Try the turn off procedure, computer will last longer!