Leaving Computer on overnight

intel

Just cover the standby light with some black tape.. worked for me.


HTH

albertross_2

I've never understood why people leave things on. The bottom line is it uses some electricity, costs some money, is environmentally wasteful, and is a fire risk.

I've seen several showers go up in smoke, heard stories of microwaves and PC's (intel) going up in smoke. What more reason do you need.

Your PC might blow due to a power surge, but I'd rather that happen while I'm in the house, than come back home to a burnt out shell.

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djohn2002uk

HOLsale wrote:

does my heart good to see you're so loyal to Evesham as we just purchased a Dual Core machine from them in October (i'm in love!).

it wasn't cheap but we plan to use it til it's dead or totally antiquated

we got the 3 year on site warranty as well but from the sounds of your experience we may never need it

I've always done the same untill this time and a 2 year onsite was standard and because of my past experiences I declined the 3rd year.
Just my luck if it goes faulty after May this year.

tigermatt

Let me define the Hibernate feature of a computer once and for all:

Hibernation is a special feature on Windows XP and maybe another Windows Operating System that can be enabled by going to where you set Screen Saver settings, then clicking Power, then select Hibernate tab, tick Enable box then Apply/OK out.

Now, when you turn off your computer, another option will appear called Hibernate, or if using the graphical welcome screen logon/logoff and shutdown, you need to press and hold shift and the Standby button changes to Hibernate.

What Hibernate does is saves everything that is currently open in memory on your computer. That is the "short-term memory" that is cleared when you turn off your computer. This is among other things, where any programs you have open/running in the background or any unsaved documents are stored until saved to the hard drive.

If shutting down normally (i.e. full shut down), the "short-term memory" (or memory from here onwards) is cleared, any programs running are closed and any unsaved work is lost, because it was stored electronically on a chip inside your computer which is cleared when the computer turns off. What the hibernate function does when you turn your computer off using it, is it saves everything that is running in memory, from an unsaved word document to currently opened programs onto your hard drive which doesn't require power to keep files stored on it. It then powers off your computer meaning you can turn it off at the wall. However, when you then turn on your computer, WIndows detects it was closed down using the Hibernate feature and automatically loads everything that was in memory last time you closed your PC down, back into memory, meaning you can simply start where you left off.

There is no fire risk with using the Hibernate function - it is just like a normal shut down except when you turn your computer back on, files are loaded from the hard drive (which is mechanical and doesn't require power to keep things stored) back into memory and you start as you finished on your PC last time.

intel

Thats what I said on Post #47

tigermatt

intel wrote:

Thats what I said on Post #47

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intel

tigermatt wrote:

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wolfman

HOLsale wrote:

i actually HATE the fact that i cannot find any way to actully shut my new dvd player off completely save switching it off at the wall...but that's another story :rotfl:

Yeah I totally agree there. Why can't they put an on/off switch on the front of most of these things! So many clocks on everything this days.

tigermatt wrote:

There is no fire risk with using the Hibernate function - it is just like a normal shut down except when you turn your computer back on, files are loaded from the hard drive (which is mechanical and doesn't require power to keep things stored) back into memory and you start as you finished on your PC last time.

Shut down or hibernate, the computer (or at least most computers) usually still use power. Namely the motherboard, in a form of standby (for waking upon key press or magic packet). Also, is often why your optical mouse may still stay faintly lit underneath. Chances of a fire happening from the above though I would imagine are very remote, but still possible (for anyone paranoid out there).

HOLsale

djohn2002uk wrote:

I've always done the same untill this time and a 2 year onsite was standard and because of my past experiences I declined the 3rd year.
Just my luck if it goes faulty after May this year.

i actually thought the price for the 3 year onsite was quite reasonable, something like £70 extra... i work based from home i simply can't afford a return to base situation

i used to work for samsung and the stories i could tell you about monitors going for repair would make your hair curl!

most were just swapped out but even that took ages most of the time... i'd rather pay for peace of mind in this case but it's good to know you didn't feel the need to do it this time around... gives me good confidence in them. they were really nice on the phone and i've called them a few times full of questions and they've always been great :T

djohn2002uk

I still have the 3rd year return to base and as I live only 45 mins from Evesham it's no problem to me to drop it off. I've usually picked my PCs up from there after configuring what I want online and then ordering via a "real" person by phone. Except the first one when ofcourse I had no internet connection at that time and I don't know if they did either. No big shiny HQ in those days, just a small workshop type building with a small showroom on the front on a small trading estate. Even then service was great. I bought a desktop case PC and didn't like it after assembling it. Rang them up and no probs took it back and swapped for a tower case.