Do you turn your computer off at night?

**Wellyman** · 31st May 2007, 20:43

Random PC related thread....
I personally Hibernate mine overnight monday till thursday, and leave it running all weekend.
what do you do?
vote in the poll and post comments!
WM

**carbacca** · 31st May 2007, 20:50

bit of 1) and 2) - depends on what time of month it is; early in the month it gets turned off, late in the month it stays on all night torrenting

**Nasty** · 31st May 2007, 20:52

Would be a waste of time cos we would always forget one or two of the five of six

**The Pastor** · 31st May 2007, 20:52

my dad says it makes toooo much noise at nite when he wants to sleep.

**Mom** · 31st May 2007, 20:58

This computer is rarely turned off, used to be because it had a power problem and would not turn back on.........now it is because we are in the habit of leaving it on.

Mind you a question for the knowing about these things, I was once told that computers hate being turned off and on, and have generally left all mine on 24/7.........should I turn it off sometimes for a rest?

**bobsmith** · 31st May 2007, 21:02

depends on what I'm running, when I was running linux on a machine I used to leave it on all the time. But with the windows machine that I do a lot of gaming on, I find that I do need to restart time to time (read turn off at night and turn on in the morning) so that it doesn't start lagging framerates. Besides it's a bit of a power drain anyway. For this I don't use hibernate or standby, it would complete negate the purpose of turning the computer off and on for me since everything in the memory and all processes will stay running. so the answer being I do a complete reboot once a day.

**Curious_AJ** · 31st May 2007, 21:02

yeah yo should turn it off at times or it could burn out.. had a couple of problems with my bros pc doing that, now he always has to watch for overheating...

we all turn ours off in this house ... i mean, if we left them on we'd be poor considering they're all on all day, and there's like 5 of them... soooo.. yeah.. hah...

**bobsmith** · 31st May 2007, 21:06

Oh another reason for not leaving it on all the time is if your computer is old, the fans can start making a lot of noise or even stop. Usually a problem with the power supplies as I've never had a CPU fan burn out on me (hmmm perhaps because I'm always upgrading them...)

**peasea** · 31st May 2007, 21:10

Originally Posted by carbacca

bit of 1) and 2) - depends on what time of month it is; early in the month it gets turned off, late in the month it stays on all night torrenting

I think this is a computer-related question, nothing to do with your missus.

**Drum** · 31st May 2007, 21:11

'puter sleeps at night unless it's backing up' music.

**robertydog** · 31st May 2007, 21:17

The thing is on all day so i turn it off at night unless im doing some major down loads.

**Quartermile** · 31st May 2007, 22:00

Originally Posted by peasea

I think this is a computer-related question, nothing to do with your missus.

Oh dude, Bling

**riffer** · 31st May 2007, 22:01

Okay...

There's three laptops in the lounge - 2 running XP, one running Feisty Fawn, Tim's PC in his room, and in the Sleepout there's the Mac, Games PC, Win2K server, and an old Compaq Deskpro 4000 running Smoothwall (router) ...

how many is that?

Damn I'm getting tired just thinking about turning them off.

No wonder my power bill's so high.

**Kiwifire72** · 31st May 2007, 22:03

it goes and stays on till the bss turns it off lo lotherwise whats more important the power bill or the movies and music I am downloading but does get rebooted everyfew days let it have a little rest

**Lissa** · 31st May 2007, 22:07

Always turn the computer off, and all the lights etc, cant stand having too many things turned on at once. My daugter (aged 2) has a habit of turning the computer off at the powerswitch whenever she sees it on... I dont think thats good for it either.