To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:01:42 -0800 Subject: Re: shutting down Message-ID: <20010329.000143.-163043.1.domanspc@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 5.0.27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 6-7,15-16,27-30,33-34,36-70 From: Robert W Moss Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Actually the real savings in keeping your computer and monitor on all the time is in the time that the power supplies will wear out. That is because of the surge of power when you turn them on, which will damage any electrical transformer over time. AFAIK an internal modem uses no (minuscule) power unless it is turned on and you are on-line. External modems would only use 9 watts when you are using them on-line, otherwise they most likely use less then one watt of standby power. When the computer (ATX) is put in sleep mode it uses only about 2-3 watts or less. You can also set the hard drive to go in sleep mode after any specified time (such as 1/2 hour of inactivity) and you can do the same for your monitor. This can be done in the setup when you first start booting your computer. The screen usually goes blank on the monitor and a lot of people wonder where the screen saver went and many people have screwed up their windows system by restarting the computer to find out what went wrong. With computer prices being as low as they are, and big businesses replacing all of their work stations after three years, it doesn't make sense to most of the bean counters to worry about saving money by turning off the complete system when you are not using it. Most IT managers in large Corporations just tell every user to turn it on in the morning and off when you go home, just logging off of the network when you leave your work station. This works great in the USA, until this year, especially in California, where the electric bills went up over 200% for a lot of people at home and more for businesses. When the cost of power goes up the ATX systems will come in handy when set properly to turn off or go on standby after a period of no activity. Ain't Technology Grand? BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "As long as Hershey and M&M (or Cadbury's in Europe) are still cheap we can mellow out over a great chocolate snack, and the heck with everything else." On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:16:12 +1000 (EST) DONALD PEDDER writes: > > There are at least two such programs listed in the Utilities > section of > > Dev T's fantastic collection of DOS links > (http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/) > > The "power" one didn't work for me, but the "atxoff" one does. > Holding > the power button down for 4-5 seconds also works. > > 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)? > Once someone told me that the power used by a computer - when > it's on - > is so small that you might as well leave it on all the time (which > would > mean less wear-and-tear on the parts). THIS I found incredible. > Surely > just having the monitor on alone all the time would draw at least > 30W or > so? My modem uses 9W. Add the rest and you have a light-globe on all > the > time. My electricty bills are expensive enough as is. > > > Anyway, thanks all. > > > dp. > > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.