BIOS Upgrade?
Skaven:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2006 August 04, 20:26:20
One computer left on 24 hours a day will cost you $115—160 in electricity costs a
year and dump 1,500 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere.
I'm just curious, do they mean that the computer itself dumps CO2 in to the atmosphere or do they mean that the generation of the power to run the computer dumps it?
Well, regaurdless, a human produces a lot more CO2 than that and they get all angry when you turn one of them off.
ZiggyDoodle:
I recall on our first office computer, I had to type in the instruction "park" before turning it off for the night. Technology has improved.
I must be on my tenth home PC and always shut down the system when I'm not using it because I'm cheap. And paranoid. I once had an internal modem get fried during a thunderstorm so I also unplug my system during bad weather and disconnect the modem from the phone jack. The fried modem has been the only hardware failure I've had since my first 286.
Keep in mind that when your system is constantly running, so is the fan - sucking in all the dust and other gunk into those once pristine circuits and doodads.
MsMaria:
You're right. It is amazing how fast that dust can build up. :-\
Hegelian:
Quote from: Skaven on 2006 August 05, 00:12:36
I'm just curious, do they mean that the computer itself dumps CO2 in to the atmosphere or do they mean that the generation of the power to run the computer dumps it?
The latter, of course.
Quote from: ZiggyDoodle on 2006 August 05, 02:58:27
Keep in mind that when your system is constantly running, so is the fan - sucking in all the dust and other gunk into those once pristine circuits and doodads.
And those fans are cheap, and the thing in PC most likely to fail (including th PSU fan).
MsMaria:
Well, today my address bar at the top disappeared and I can't get it back. Luckily? I can use Yahoo's bar. I got so frustrated trying to navigate the internet and various sites that I decided to play my game. I got it loaded and while waiting for a lot to load; the game dropped to the taskbar. I pulled it back up and played for about 30 seconds before the screen went black and I had to hard reboot again.
I have a friend that thinks it is video card related, but with things disappearing left and right and my game is clear as a bell, is it really?
Ah well, just wanted to vent before the darn thing quits completely. :'(
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