computer damage

[rhylmark]

does turning a computer at the end of the day do it any damage or should i, as i have been told leave it on stand by. ta much.

[vampchick98]

It would be best to be turned off - preferabally using the Shut Down button. Also, leaving a computer on Standby wastes electricity.

[figure]

I always turn my computer at home off whereas those in the office remains on.

[4candles]

The PC I bought in 2001 is in use every day, and is always switched off at the end of the day - no problems so far.

[Ethel]

You may be harking back to the dark ages when turning off a pc caused the hard drive to be 'parked' - it was thought harmful to keep turning the pc on and off then, but very harmful not to park it before moving the pc.

In these modern, enlightened times of technological wizardry turning your computer off will do no harm whatsoever

Incidentally, the monitor uses the most energy, so anytime you leave your pc, turn the monitor off.

[markysngc]

I can see no reason "turning a computer" at the end of the day would do it any harm as long as it was shut down and all cables where disconnected when your doing the turning, is this some sort of Feng Shui question?
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Seriously, you will probably get people giving both sides of the story, it's up to you, I leave my computers on 24/7 but thats my way of doing it as I want them to be ready to use whenever, if you don't mind the time they take to start then turn them off, don't reckon it makes a big difference to the life span

[ACtheTROLL]

Another half pennyworth coming up

It's never been proved ... so it is just opinion ....
the techies have always said never switch a machine off
think of lightbulbs ... they always blow when you switch them back on!

I was involved in a massive upgrade of machines (nt4) which hadn't been switched off (other than rebooted) for 2-3 yeays ... we had more than 60% which wouldn't switch back on for various reasons. I know of servers running nt4 which have been running constantly since the late 90s

the theory is ...
a pc is basically a big mixture of different metals glued to a big plastic sheet (mobo) which has a heater at one end (cpu)

so you heat it all up to 40-60c ... and everything expands according to it's properties (which are all different) ... you turn off the heat ... and everything cools and so contracts again at it's own rate.... again ... and again .... and again

take a metal coathanger ... and see how many times you can bend it sharply before it breaks.

the latest green thinking says that an average pc will save about �100 per yeat ... and save gawd knows how many tons of co2 ....

so is your question about your PC ... or the air you breathe?

[rhylmark]

thanks all.i will continue to switch of and save the world!!!!!