I shut down my PC at the end of the day if I've been using it and isolate it from the main power supply of the house. I just put it in sleep mode if I need to step away from it for a few hours. 

I haven't turned off my PC in 14 years. The only thing that's been changed is the video card. Just as an FYI, I have a cheap ceiling mounted fan in the garage and it's been running 24 hour a day since 2006.

I turn mine off when not in use. I think it’s a carryover from my youth when my Dad would jerk knots on my head ( literally) for leaving lights on that were not in use. Very austere when it came to frugality. My folks were children of the Great  Depression. Some habits become a part of you so we for the most part turn everything off that’s not in use. My system is seven years old and no  issues. I’m 72 and no issues I know of from the disciplinary floggings. Better for it I think. Luv ya Dad.🥲

Since my first computer over 30 years ago, I always powered them off every day as soon as I was done using it.  Some days it'd be power cycled two or more times.  For all my build for all those years never had a failure beyond a cheapo PSU in an early build that failed without collateral damage and a two years old EVGA gcard that they promptly replaced with a one of higher model (those were the days).  Every PSU since has been top tier for the power needed, I learned that lesson.

Edited June 2, 20242 yr by TheFamilyMan

11 hours ago, martin-w said:

I don't believe it subjects our PC's to any stress to shut them down completely. 

Finally we agree on something Martin! 🤣

 I always shut down

Both my computers are plugged into a UPS.  My PC is shut down every night. With the way I have it set up, high performance, EMP, etc, it does not want to go into sleep mode anyway.  I don't bother with turning off the Powersupply,  Never really had an issue.   

My iMac, I put in into sleep mode everynight and maybe do a reboot once a month.  Been doing that for 15+ years. 

There are pro's and con's for both routines, and I don't think it makes much of a difference, unless you live in an area where your power is unstable. 

2 hours ago, FBW737 said:

Finally we agree on something Martin! 🤣

 

Oh yes, but read the bit about PSU inrush thermistors.

Phew! That was a close one... 

Has anyone had/have to deal with a "1 out of 10" situation that your system won't start/wake-up after having it put to sleep ?   I am used to put my system to sleep. I am often away from it for a couple of hours so it's often On/Off several times a day. I never felt comfortable shutting it down completely every time. What happens with this "1 out of 10" clausule is that when i hit a key on my keyboard to wake up my precious baby she just won't. The inner lighting comes on and that's it. My monitor remains black but after a few seconds i get this message " No DP signal from your device".

Usually i can get it back to work after closing it down and even pull the plug, wait a minute and then try again. Usually i'll then get the Bios and after closing without saving i'm back at my desktop. Pheww!! 

 That "1 out of 10" is not carved in stone. Sometimes my system awakes each and every time for a month or so but then all of a sudden out of the blue this annoying problem is back again. Couple months ago it finally happend, my beloved system wouldn't wake-up/start-up anymore no matter what i tried (for a couple days...). Called an expert and i watched him pull out a tiny round battery or something, put it back again et voilá ! System started up like nothing had happend. That's another Pheww!!!! ....

Btw, i also tried shutting down my system after each session instead of putting it to sleep, same thing happens, sometimes "No DP signal from your Device". So it doesn't make no difference putting it to sleep or shut it down completely (i am often busy with something when i have to leave for a couple hours. Very handy to leave everything as is, put system to sleep and later have everything still as it was after waking up the system).

In any case i know what to do now when my system doesn't really want to wake-up again. I am just interested in hearing if anyone else knows what i'm talking about ??...🙄

Thanks !  

Edited June 2, 20242 yr by Javiz

1 hour ago, Javiz said:

Has anyone had/have to deal with a "1 out of 10" situation that your system won't start/wake-up after having it put to sleep ?   I am used to put my system to sleep. I am often away from it for a couple of hours so it's often On/Off several times a day. 

 

That's a common issue.

 

https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/the-computer-wont-wake-up-from-sleep-on-windows-11-how-to-fix-the-issue/

Have several computers on the lan here.  My htpc I do have set to sleep after so many hours, but otherwise including my flight sim they never get shutdown/sleep/hibernate.  Only if we are going to be away for a few days do we shut down (though we have 13-14 in laptops that are portable and go with us wherever, so they are shut down while in transit).  We tend not  to use phones for anything we don't have to.

 

scott s.

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18 hours ago, martin-w said:

 

That's a common issue.

 

https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/the-computer-wont-wake-up-from-sleep-on-windows-11-how-to-fix-the-issue/

Thanks very much Martin ! Of course i have been reading up about this problem off and on but i never came across this one. Maybe it's because i'm still on W10..... Some of the stuff from a possible solution doesn't seem to be available. What i can do of course is keep my Bios up to date in any case. "Power button on the CPU" looks very interesting, never heard of that... (they don't mean the main button on the case, do they ??.....) 

Thanks again, Martin, this is very welcome indeed, i might even think about updating to Windows 11..  🙂  

4 hours ago, Javiz said:

(they don't mean the main button on the case, do they ??.....) 

 

😀 Yeah, they must mean the case switch. I haven't read the article, but re the case button, its function charged way back, I recall Windows 8 time. One quick press shuts down Windows the same way you do from the start menu, but a long press sends a signal straight to the PSU to shut down, so not a clean shutdown. The function of the power button can be changed in settings. 

I've heard people complain about this sleep issue many times, doesn't apply to me though because I never use the function. 

 

My old one with win7 on “unsupported“ hardware have problem wake up after sleep， so basically always on, for like 5 years. before that I use sleep a lot.

Now with new win11 rig I sleep almost every night, but shut down mostly at Sunday night (and the "quick start" or something like that to make shutdown works more like sleep thing have been disabled in regedit)

My computer is plugged into a UPS.  I leave it up all the time, only shutting down to clean, if the power goes off long enough to drain the battery, or if something glitches (or if I expect to be gone over a day).  A few times the current computer has failed POST (apparently the video card causes a failure, 6 beeps) so I'm hesitant to power down too often.  I don't use sleep or hibernation.

What the heck kind of computer lasts 14 years!??  Mine are usually only good for about 6.  Current computer is... about 6.

When I had Windows ME, known to be unstable, it was perfectly fine as long as I did a power-off reboot about once a week.  Before I had a Windows computer (or OS/2) I powered off when I wasn't using it.

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Edited June 4, 20242 yr by LHookins