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From: ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ($anjay [+] $ingh - Indy Studz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Leave the PC on vs. Power it off daily?
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.144759.7880@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 90 14:47:59 GMT
References: <1990Sep17.205845.12803@pdn.paradyne.com> <1480@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl>
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In article <1480@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> chooft@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) writes:
>In <1990Sep17.205845.12803@pdn.paradyne.com> dixon@pdn.paradyne.com 
>(Tom Dixon) writes:
>
>>With todays pc hardware, exactly how dangerous is each power cycle?  
>>If you power your office unit off every night, are you in for early 
>>hardware failures?  Or is this all propaganda spread by electric power 
>>companies?
>
>I run an XT since 17 feb 87, and upgraded with harddisk at 27 feb 87. This
>machine is powered up and down at least once a day, usually more, at least
>six days a week. I never had a problem.
>
>-- 
>Rob Hooft, Chemistry department University of Utrecht.
>hooft@hutruu54.bitnet hooft@chem.ruu.nl chooft@fys.ruu.nl

We had a discussion on this topic some months ago on the net. The general
concensus was that with the newer, better designed power supplies, it
is okay to turn the machine off and on more often than once a day.

Some years ago, it would have been smarter to leave your computer on
all the time because the power supplies would allow such large surges
through the machine on power-up.

Unless the power supply is faulty to begin with, five years down the line,
you will have moved up to a new computer with a new power supply to begin
again with.


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