Leave running or power off?
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Personally I come from the leave it running, always, school of thought. Everything at home is on standby at worse and I just don't switch anything off.
So why the post? Well, my PC died about an hour after I came back from my hols. I suspect the fluff that was normally circulating all got drawn into the CPU fan after it settled down. No proof, just a good guess when I took it apart.
Previously my central heating packed up when I went on my hols and powered it down. To my mind, technology is at it's best when it's being used and it just doesn't like heat cycling.
So who religiously powers off and who leaves switched on?
So why the post? Well, my PC died about an hour after I came back from my hols. I suspect the fluff that was normally circulating all got drawn into the CPU fan after it settled down. No proof, just a good guess when I took it apart.
Previously my central heating packed up when I went on my hols and powered it down. To my mind, technology is at it's best when it's being used and it just doesn't like heat cycling.
So who religiously powers off and who leaves switched on?
C C said:
Any idea what it died of?
Might just need a new PSU.
Fluff ingestion
CPU was running at about 95 degrees when I realised there was a problem
Won't even boot to the BIOS when totally stripped down now. I might get away with just a new PSU, or just a CPU but TBH, it's easier to just replace the MoBo etc. If things didn't die from the heat they could have been compromised and I can't be arsed to fault find
For my sins I spend some of my free time repairing or upgrading PCs for friends and work mates etc.
It’s amazing how some of them run at all with the amount of dust inside.
Heavy smokers are the worst. The tar in the smoke makes a lovely sticky surface for the dust to adhere to and then it acts as a binding agent. Lovely! and the smell.
Good luck with the new kit.
It’s amazing how some of them run at all with the amount of dust inside.
Heavy smokers are the worst. The tar in the smoke makes a lovely sticky surface for the dust to adhere to and then it acts as a binding agent. Lovely! and the smell.
Good luck with the new kit.
It's cheaper in the long run because things generally don't break if you leave them running
In some of the older kit we used to work with, the PSU's often break if allowed to cool. The PN Junctions in the diodes just broke down when they had a temperature cycle.
If we were working in the IT racks, we used to power the kit down, stick it anywhere in the shop and power it up again.... Always came back up when it was time to recommission. The kit that was left powered down for a few hours frequently never worked again.
In some of the older kit we used to work with, the PSU's often break if allowed to cool. The PN Junctions in the diodes just broke down when they had a temperature cycle.
If we were working in the IT racks, we used to power the kit down, stick it anywhere in the shop and power it up again.... Always came back up when it was time to recommission. The kit that was left powered down for a few hours frequently never worked again.
It's not just the heat cycling (although that is bad). The biggest electrical spike that you can give a PC is to go from 0 to 450+ watts in no time at all. Even modern power supplies tend to throw power instant on rather than spool up slowly...
...and then there is the hard drives. Hands up those that remember "parking" discs through the winchester hard disk utility before powering down? No? Just me? (showing my age again). However, hard drives take a hell of a beating powering up from a stand still. Better to leave those puppies spinning.
Just MHO
ErnestM
...and then there is the hard drives. Hands up those that remember "parking" discs through the winchester hard disk utility before powering down? No? Just me? (showing my age again). However, hard drives take a hell of a beating powering up from a stand still. Better to leave those puppies spinning.
Just MHO
ErnestM
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