Welcome back lag how was your vaca?

[krikke93]

Current desktop computer uptime: 22 days, and that's only because I accidentally hit the reset button.

Lol, same here. I never shut down my desktop xD

[Cerbreus]

Ahh well.... I'll stop thinking out loud

[painhertz]

idk ur the programmer +) my thought would be the same same reason why i shut down my computer once a day to give it a chance for a break and to fix anything that was wrong during reboot

As someone who repairs computers for a living, I'm here to tewll you that turning them off and on actually stresses them. i "never" turn ine off u nless the power goes off or a program requires a reboot.

[loftar]

As someone who repairs computers for a living, I'm here to tewll you that turning them off and on actually stresses them.

On what grounds do you say this? I just never turn my computers off because it's easier not to; I've never really considered that it might have any effects on the hardware, so I'm curious.

[jordancoles]

As someone who repairs computers for a living, I'm here to tewll you that turning them off and on actually stresses them.

On what grounds do you say this? I just never turn my computers off because it's easier not to; I've never really considered that it might have any effects on the hardware, so I'm curious.

I left my laptop on for about 2 years straight and I feel like it did have some effect on it in some way. Fans running for 2 years straight, etc
Can't be good for it I'm sure

[loftar]

I left my laptop on for about 2 years straight and I feel like it did have some effect on it in some way. Fans running for 2 years straight, etc
Can't be good for it I'm sure

I wouldn't be so sure; one could speculate in the exact opposite as well; that temperature-cycling the oils and bearings in the fans wears them out, or similarly that charge-cycling power-supply capacitors could have adverse effects, and such things. It's not as if I haven't noticed my constantly-turned-on computers actually seeming to have better lifetimes than those of various friends, who seem to have computers break for them every few years or so while I've still hardly suffered a single hardware failure.

Anyone can speculate, but painhertz speaking with such confidence made me wonder if he had something to back up his claim.

[TeckXKnight]

On what grounds do you say this? I just never turn my computers off because it's easier not to; I've never really considered that it might have any effects on the hardware, so I'm curious.

It depends. If you leave your computer on it will accumulate more dust and debris within the case and on critical hardware such as the motherboard. You really want to shut everything down once in awhile and clean it out to prevent this from negatively affecting things.

In addition to this if your computer has a sleep mode this eats up system memory and your computer will allocate HDD space to handle these processes. Disable sleep modes to prevent this from happening.

Otherwise, though I've never heard any scientific backing on this, supposedly leaving the excess bit of electricity in your system to be idle can damage it over time. I know that this can destroy a motherboard over several years of a computer not being turned on, but I don't know what the effects are for 8-16 hours of down time at a time.

[Cerbreus]

i was thinking more along the lines of memory issues, with all the background programs running... back when i left my computer running my video card would trip out it seems. and when i had low memory too it would do the same.. thought it was the same way with servers

[loftar]

i was thinking more along the lines of memory issues, with all the background programs running...

That would only be a problem if you have a program leaking memory. And even if you do, just restart that program instead of the entire system.