Message-Id: <3.0.16.19910329203531.349f46bc@tellus.swip.net> X-Sender: mt58779 AT tellus DOT swip DOT net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 Demo (16) To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: Bernie Subject: RE: shutting down Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:34:42 +0200 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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