Going away for a month

joeyjojo · 13 Jul 2006 at 22:10

Lords, ladies and gentlemen

Going away for four weeks tomorrow. As such I've informed the parents that the pc is to stay on the entire time, none of this 16-hours-a-day rubbish it's currently on. Problem is, the room gets damn hot and ma mere has threatened to turn it "not on" if we get any really hot weather. I'll try and persuade her against that, but you never know.

Anyway, hope to have a slightly higher 24 hour average by the time I get back. Also hope for at least 55k 24 hour average, but lets go for 60k tbh. Hope you all have fun and productive summers :cool:

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Fold on

dunc · 13 Jul 2006 at 23:55

You could always use a timer plug, and set your BIOS to resume its state after power outage. Obviuosly just turning the power off is not good, however it would turn itself back on.

Otherwise have a good break

Dunc

joeyjojo · 14 Jul 2006 at 00:52

not sure about cutting the power like that, every single day for a month. Might be slightly bad for the comp.

Cheers

shadowscotland · 14 Jul 2006 at 07:22

how about using shutdown.exe (if you've got 2000 or xp that is)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317371

oceaness · 14 Jul 2006 at 13:02

You can set an alarm boot time in the BIOS in the evening say for 7pm, have it crunch all night (when it's cooler) then create a .bat text file with the /shutdown command and then use the windows scheduler in control pannel to run the .bat file

I haven't tried it by I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

joeyjojo · 14 Jul 2006 at 13:40

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Leaving in 20 mins, so ran out of time to organise automatic turning on/off of the comp. Hopefully my 24 hour average won't plummet too far.

Have a good month
Fold on

dunc · 14 Jul 2006 at 15:44

joeyjojo said:
not sure about cutting the power like that, every single day for a month. Might be slightly bad for the comp.

Cheers

True that

Was just an idea

Have a good'un

Dunc