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From:	Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject:	RE: shutting down
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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:34:42 +0200
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Donald wrote:
>   As for the comments about how much power is used when it's "switched
>off", I don't understand that. Surely the only real power-usage is keeping
>the clock going (everything else being insignificant in comparison)?

The clock is run on the internal batery (which should last for atleast 5
years). However there are other things that uses power in a ATX computer.
The computer always have power, wake-on-lan, wake-on-key and wake-on-modem
will all of them turn the computer into full power if activated.
I had to explain that there was a risk for two of my students a few weeks
ago if the NIC was able to do this (depends on the card and the BIOS
settings) since one of them said that it was impossible and that a friend
(who didn't know a thing about computers) was afraid of it.
//Bernie

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