Computer restarts in an average day?

[davidhughs]

I have G4 and a PC.

G4 - restart it 3 times a day.
PC - restart it once a month.
but I use G4 every single day.

[Lobsang Mack]

I have 4 computers here running XP Pro with SP2 and 1 with Win2000 Small Business Server and the only time I have to reboot is after Windows Updates or it has been self-inflicted.....

[Lobsang Mack]

Originally Posted by d_kendal

hey Greg,

glad to hear it's working better now! yeah, without fail there's ALWAYS something that you forget to backup when you do a reinstall (last time it was my fonts )

- David

I use Second Copy 2000 from www.centered.com and backup My Documents, favourites, fonts and anything else I think I may need for a rebuild. It works in the background and you get to decide when and how often it does it's magic.

All-in-all a great product.

[smiley guy]

"Seldom or never" here. I have an iMacG5 20" so it is on almost all the time except for sleepy time! I have had my share of problems with it, the revA machines are nototiously bad. I had HD failure, display problems x2 and melting/burning capacitors! A real joy to use but not without it's problems.

[Caitlin]

I voted Seldom or Never (but I don't have a Mac). If it's more than that you need to clean up your PC.

[raniday]

I think the restarts were during the time of Windows 98. XP just keeps going like the Energizer Bunny!

[Caitlin]

Wow - yeah - didn't notice how far back this thread goes!! Maybe it's time to lock it...

[Steve Conway]

Yes, DON'T!

Most ills that it may cure will be superseded by many other problems that upgrading causes.

Short of buying a new computer with the OS you want already installed, format the HD and re-install the new operatring system from scratch.

Upgrading a present OS causes many programs and functions to not work as they did with the old system.

Steve

Originally Posted by Sanda

wow you guys have convinced me I'm going to upgrade to XP. I usually have to restart several times a day sometimes but other days I can manage a whole day without a restart.
when upgrading to XP are there anythings I should look out for?

[Steve Conway]

Anyone running hard drives with RAID 0 or RAID 1 technology?

Any problems?

Steve

[Cassidy]

Originally Posted by Steve Conway

Anyone running hard drives with RAID 0 or RAID 1 technology?

Any problems?

Steve

Presume you are talking 'mirror'? Raid 1 is a better choice, fairly seemless most of the time to the user.

[Steve Conway]

May be using RAID 0 soon. Understand it does not mirror, but uses the second drive to, in effect, load and unload programs etc. faster. In other words the two drives might each contain a "piece" of a program, image, etc.

Steve

Originally Posted by Cassidy

Presume you are talking 'mirror'? Raid 1 is a better choice, fairly seemless most of the time to the user.

[Cassidy]

Originally Posted by Steve Conway

May be using RAID 0 soon. Understand it does not mirror, but uses the second drive to, in effect, load and unload programs etc. faster. In other words the two drives might each contain a "piece" of a program, image, etc.

Steve

Then you are talking striping, yes can be much more efficient, but not sure of the differences between raid 0 and raid 1 in that regard, was running raid 0 years ago and know that if I split a set, I lost all.

[Steve Conway]

I may go with RAID 1. Prefer to give up a bit of HD space and speed for the security of mirroring.

Thanks for your input.

Steve

Originally Posted by Cassidy

Then you are talking striping, yes can be much more efficient, but not sure of the differences between raid 0 and raid 1 in that regard, was running raid 0 years ago and know that if I split a set, I lost all.

[tetsuo]

i got 3 systems.

my server running w2k3 which last booted according to log was march 4 2004.

my workstation running XPsp2 only powers up when i do heavy editing. before i got my laptop. i remembered i didnt shutdown/reboot for almost 6 months +

my laptop XPsp2 autohibernates and auto standby. reboot twice a month cause i force discharge the batteries till 0%. the batteries take a awefully 10-12 hours to get it to 0%

[KevinF]

Running XP Pro... I typically reboot every 3 weeks to a month. I leave photoshop and indesign running most of the time as well, plus whatever various games I load up to kill time

As far as stability goes, I couldn't be happier.

[Mica]

I run XP Pro (and other OS) on my work machine, a Sun Workstation with dual Opterons, a boat load of memory and a beefy video card full of mem. I only reboot when I want to change the operating system to Solaris 10 or Linux. The machine has never frozen or misbehaved in the 10 months I've used it daily.

At home, it's a bit different. I have a Sony VAIO running XP only. It's nowhere the machine that my Sun is, and it occasionally reboots itself! It almost always happens right after powering up. I have crashed the machine several times when I forget I can't do everything at home that I do at work.

[marthav]

I have a Dell PC and rarely have to restart. A couple of months ago I had lots of lock ups so figured it was all those big graphics files. After cleaning up my files it wasn't much better. Then it finally occurred to me that the cache and history needing clearing. That did it.

[lkroll]

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I rarely reboot my PC; actually use hibernate, so, virtually, my machine usually gets booted once a month (due to the security updates from Uncle Bill; lol).

[i.ilievski]

I don't turn off my computers at all... and I don't remember when was the last time when something crashed or restarted it'self...

I'm using XP operating system on all of my systems, and the hardware is manufactured by highly trusted manufacturesrs ...

Regards..

[Littlecoo]

I build my own PCs and on my current workhorse I am running Win2000pro which I'd say is the most stable Windows OS I have ever used (it has never crashed on me). My PC is also a network server so it is always running. Like Ikroll I only ever need to restart when I get an update or am doing maintainence.

[tived]

Never! and it isn't even a Mac ;-)

I have machines that runs 24/7 some runs as file-servers, workstations, print servers, accounting machines and they never fails.

Most often your computer will need restarting is because of poor choice of components and most often its the power-supply.

well build computers don't need to restart spontanously, only planned restarts!

So, if you are having many spontanous restarts, have your powersupply checked out, it can be that simple. and next time buy or build your computer from quality components.

you get what you pay for

Henrik