To turn off or not to turn off ?
When I'm away on business/holiday trips I always turn off (disconnect power to) the PC and associated systems. And whenever I come back I have trouble getting some vital peripherals up and running again. This time it was the WiMax I had trouble rebooting (took two days of fiddling), also had to reset the WiFi and a couple of other things. (Not part of a computer forum, but a satellite receiver which I had powered off completely for two weeks has refused to start again, presumably the PSU is dead).
I am now beginning to think that other than putting the PC into sleep/standby, monitor also in s/b, maybe leaving everything on is a better option. It's all protected from power surges by a comprehensive system, and run via a UPS which can keep the computer powered up for 45 minutes even when working fully (UPS has big battery, bloody noisy cooling fan).
At least when coming back from mission with loads of work and 50 e-mails to answer (as hapened on Friday) I could get cracking right away.
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