As many of the people here have said, as long as you have good temp monitors on the motherboard (which most newer models do have) and your fan is working you'll be fine. [timh@r2d2 timh]$ uptime 12:30pm up 57 days, 16:02, 27 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 That machine doesn't even have a system fan. Just the fans on the CPU and the video card. The case does a very good job of moving the air through though. But we have machines that are the size of a book that have a laptop HDD, ram and all that good stuff, stuffed in a rack and maintain temps of 40 degrees Celius at times. They stay up for years (Barring no problems with them that is.) So you should be okay. Your house won't burn down while you're asleep! And in most cases, the alarm on the motherboard will go off and scare the mess out of you before that happens! (I've heard that sound before! Didn't want to use the CPU fan since it was so loud!) I also disagree with the idea of prolonged use of hardware wares it out. It's the spinning up of the harddrives and firing up of the CPUs that are so stressful. A harddrive that spins up so often will sieze up on you. I have 2 GB harddrives that were given to me 3rd or 4th hand. All the servers it once resided in, were production servers for whatever reason, and were were 24/7. I use them as SWAP for various machines, and have absolutely no problem with them. They actually run cooler then the newer HDDs I have. But you'll be okay! I understand the complaint of the boot up time. One reason why I love FreeBSD so much. I can reboot my FreeBSD server two or three times in the time it would take my Mandrake workstation to just go down! tdh -- T. Holmes ----------------- UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: -------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30pm up 3 days, 20:07, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | hi, I should ask my pc vender about this, but everyone here knows so much | more, I just couldn't help but to ask here. | | I have a pc with celeron 633 mhz processor with intel 810e motherboard, will | | it be safe if I try to let it on overnight? I love Mandrake and have been | using it forever since 7.2, but it takes so long to boot up whenever I want | to use it and I couldn't use the built in Standby mode because that seems to | | be only working with windows. I am hoping to be able to just leave it on | all day long that I don't have to watch it boot up. | | Most computers in school are ran 24/7, but they are mostly all air | conditioned and mostly are not placed near books. Does anyone know if it is | | safe for a home user to leave his/her computer on continuously? | | Thanks very much for your help | | Eric | | _________________________________________________________________ | Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ------------------------------------------------------------------
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