Leave your comp on or off
 

I am just wondering what everybody else does. When I first got a computer 10 years ago I've always turned it off to conserve power, but in the last 3 years i just keep on leaving it up all night. So what do u do

leave it on as long as i wont be away from home to long if i plan on being out all day and most the night i shut it off

On 24/7 unless I am leaving for more than a couple days

Gets shut off after use..also I feel more secure against hacks

on 24/7 even if im gone... i plan on taking a trip for a few days in the next few weeks and it will be up the whole time

p.s.
its locked down everytime i step away from it... even if im just going to take a piss and no one else is here... im paranoid

:1orglaugh

ya got fire insurance?

when shit fails they sometimes cause a fire.
would be nice if you are their to turn it off.

ya know?

On about 15 hours a day lol

case is coated with fireproof paint... flamestop.com

On 24/7 unless I leave the house without my dog.

i all pcs here on 24 /7

ithe contstant hummm coming from the office is soothing

:glugglug

ON 24/7/365 unless there's a blackout (that's when the laptop gets some use)

I reboot every two days....seems to work best for me. My system slows way down if I do not.

os?

fix your sig

I leave it on and reboot it 1-2 times a week

always on, always have been, and always will. only reboot from time to time for updates.

On 24/7, unless leaving for more than a day. I turn the monitor off when I leave the room for a while.

Same here! :)

Always on unless i leave town for more than a day.

Always turn it off. I can't leave it on all the time, it's against instinct. I just can't, I don't know why but I can't, somehow I feel sorry for it :(

ahhh just leave it on... That way when u wake up it'll be ready for you

on throughout the day and off when I go to bed :)

i leave mine on 24/7

haha, a few years ago my fan went out and my whole hard drive caught of fire, lucky i was only downstairs and could smell the shit burning...

if you leave for more than a day, it's a fucking good idea to turn the thing off.

I do not off my notebook already one year :)

i've found that if i leave mine long it gets real slow, so i always turn it off when im not using it.

Desktops get left on 24/7

Laptop daily since I take it everywhere I go

I cant turn my computer off. I cant imagine waiting 2 minutes for it to boot up and go to GFY

If we aren't on one of them they are off. Read your fire insurance policies... lol If you have something in that room catch fire (even if it might not be the puter) and they find something in the on position. You are outta luck.

Non essentials such as puters, toasters, coffeepots etc etc should always be off unless in use. They will use that to get out of paying if at all possible.

off

just better any way you slice it
:2 cents:

Never turn it off. Several reasons. I used to build computers (10 years ago) and when you turn them off and on all the time you find that the power supply would go bad from the surges. Many computer nuts have agreed to this over the years. I have not lost a power supply since I stopped turning them off. Also, I have had the on/off switch go tits-up from the extra use.:2 cents:

It stays on.

Turn mine off

If your CPU fans dies. Then wont your CPU just overheat and lockup and the computer will be basically in idle. If your power supply fan(s) die then thats a different story

they have off buttons?

:winkwink:

At least download screen saver to find a cure for cancer or something :2 cents:

24/7 why would you ever want to turn it off?

On, when the fucker is old enough to die it's time for a new PC anyhow.

i've googled the catching fire theory and here's what i found out

I don't think I've ever heard of a PC or monitor causing a fire. Once
all the smoke gets out of the power supply, pretty much nothing happens.

Last place I worked at built computers, thousands per day. As part
of the process, they went through a four hour burn in. Over several
years, I can remember one power supply failing to the extent of
actually releasing a cloud of smoke. No fire.

I've had several systems end up with clogged or failed fans; they
overheated, but did not smoke or catch fire from that.

I had one old system returned with stability problems. This system
used a MultiBus backplane, with cards about the size of a sheet of
paper. When I opened it up, there were layers of lint on all the
boards, a couple of inches of it in the sides, clogging the filters,
and covering the drives (5.25" full-height). After some work with
a brush, vacuum, and air hose, I got it all cleaned out. Afterwards,
everything worked fine. We went ahead and replaced the hard drives,
since they were a few years old, but I continued using them for a
few more years in other systems.

I've never had a system fail that damaged anything; there's just
not that much energy being released. Usually the power supply will
just die and stop doing anything, one of the good features of
switchers. Most often, a hard drive fails and just stops spinning.

I have three systems at home running full time on a UPS, five of
mine at work, and a couple of hundred work systems which are on
full time. We don't worry about then catching fire.

Off when I am in "off mode" also :)

off

Usually always on at home. At my main offices most of the folks turn theirs off at night, though I usually leave mine running continuously about half the time. Always turn off my monitors.