DvB said: > Especially the monitor. I have my monitors power down not only to > save energy, but also (at least in the case of my home box, which > is in my bedroom) because they generate a substantial amount of > heat which, in turn, makes my A/C run more often and increses my > power bill (not to mention, using more enegery still :-)
i don't. i dont trust power management on desktops. ive come back to too many locked up systems(at least locked up as in monitor wont wake up) because of APM. i do turn off my monitors when im not using them to reduce heat though. i tell people at my company to leave their machines on all the time. the less power cycling the better. i do promote turning off monitors(manually, not APM) though for the sole purposes of keeping heat levels down(same goes for lighting). i have an ultra 10 that i powered down for 30 minutes(the box was about 6 months old). powered it backup..never came back..disk was totally dead. wouldn't spin at all. and with the near 2 dozen IBM disk drive failures ive had in the past 6 months, im even more for never turning off the system. nate