[nfbcs] Computer Shutting off During the Night

Mon Feb 22 19:07:21 UTC 2016

Oh, that's a really good point. I would like to change my vote from over 
heating to power surges.  I should have thunk of that first. We had a 
case of a Dell workstation shutting down regularly. Turns out, the grad 
students in the office next door had a microwave oven and whenever they 
cooked something on high, it would cause a power surge that shutdown the 
workstationplugged into the outlet on the other side of the wall.
On 02/22/2016 09:06 AM, William Grussenmeyer via nfbcs wrote:
> if the surge protector has to be unplugged and plugged back in in
> order to work again, it might be the outlet causing the problem.  Try
> plugging into a different outlet or plug another computer into same
> outlet and see what happens.  One time I had three outlets go out in
> my aprment and I thought there was something wrong with my computer.
> I had to hit the circuit brakers after going to a computer tech to
> tell me everything was fine with computer.
>
> On 2/22/16, John G Heim via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Is this thing still under warranty? Personally, I'd just replace it. If
>> you want to try to salvage the hard drive and stuff, maybe you could do
>> that. But what is probably going to happen is that you are going to pay
>> to have it checked out and then you are going to have to replace it anyway.
>>
>> I am responsible for over 100 Dell workstations and it's amazing to me
>> how quickly and easily a Dell tech can replace a power supply or even a
>> mother board. But it's not cost effective unless the machine is under
>> warranty. I've never tried to buy parts from Dell. If you could buy a
>> power supply or a mother board from Dell, you probably could replace
>> even those parts yourself. Replacing a hard drive or memory sticks is
>> trivial and you don't need Dell parts for that.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/21/2016 10:36 PM, Peter Donahue via nfbcs wrote:
>>> Good evening everyone,
>>>
>>> 	This is a Dell computer running Windows 7 Home Premium. If a setting
>>> was changed to cause this behavior it may have occurred the last time
>>> Windows was updated. My wife tried turning it back on this morning
>>> without
>>> success. It was after I unplugged it from the surge protector and plugged
>>> it
>>> back in again that the machine came back on and booted up without
>>> trouble.
>>> All other devices plugged in to this same  surge protector are uneffected
>>> by
>>> whatever is causing this issue. It has been running flawlessly all day
>>> long.
>>> Let's see what tomorrow brings. Here's hoping it will run alright until a
>>> technician comes on Friday to help us figure this out in addition to
>>> helping
>>> us troubleshoot our laptop and assist us with networking our iDevices to
>>> our
>>> NAS drives. Let this teach us to take full advantage of all our iDevices
>>> have to offer so when crises like this arise we won't be without access
>>> to
>>> our data and life can go on as usual. All the best.
>>>
>>> Peter Donahue who is writing this note on the computer that likes to shut
>>> itself off at or around 6:00 a.m.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Christopher
>>> Chaltain via nfbcs
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 9:55 PM
>>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>>> Cc: Christopher Chaltain
>>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Computer Shutting off During the Night
>>>
>>> Of course, this depends on factors such as how long you have your system
>>> powered off and what other power settings you have set.
>>>
>>> Another option maybe to suspend or hibernate the system when you're done
>>> using it for the day or after it's been left idle for a while. I didn't
>>> catch what kind of a computer this is or what operating system it's
>>> running,
>>> but you should find these in your power settings. This means you won't be
>>> able to do backups or downloads while it's idle, but it'll snap right
>>> back
>>> to where you left it with just a touch of the keyboard.
>>> This is what I do, and I find it to be a reasonable compromise.
>>>
>>> On 21/02/16 19:05, Mike and Jenna via nfbcs wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>    From everything I learned in school you are using less power buy
>>>> living your computer on. It takes more power to start a computer from a
>>> cold boot.
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude
>>>> DaShiell via nfbcs
>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 12:23 PM
>>>> To: Nicole Torcolini via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Computer Shutting off During the Night
>>>>
>>>> Some people use nighttime hours to download podcasts and download then
>>>> seed bittorrents and do updates.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, Nicole Torcolini via nfbcs wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 12:11:42
>>>>> From: Nicole Torcolini via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> Cc: Nicole Torcolini <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Computer Shutting off During the Night
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, this is not the answer, so you may stop reading if you do not
>>>>> want to hear what I have to say. Why do you need the computer running
>>>>> 24-7? Unless you produce your own electricity, you are probably
>>>>> driving your energy bill up. Also, unless either you have your own
>>>>> source of renewable energy or your energy program uses renewable
>>>>> energy, you are adding to greenhouse gas emissions.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of John G.
>>>>> Heim via nfbcs
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 8:04 AM
>>>>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>>>>> Cc: John G. Heim
>>>>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Computer Shutting off During the Night
>>>>>
>>>>> I nominate over heating as a prime candidate. Points against it are
>>>>> that it is occuring in the middle of the night when the computer is
>>>>> not being used and when the environment is probably at it's coolest.
>>>>> Is the machine doing anything in the middle of the night? Heavy
>>>>> backups?
>>>>> Downloading updates?
>>>>>
>>>>> I would open it up and clean it out.  Especially make sure the fans
>>>>> aren't blocked by dust anddog hair.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 02/21/2016 09:38 AM, Peter Donahue via nfbcs wrote:
>>>>>> Good morning everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                     We're some of those folks that like to keep at
>>>>>> least one computer running 24/7. Until last week this hasn't been a
>>>>>> problem. Several mornings last week including this morning we came
>>>>>> down stairs to find that Mary's computer had shut itself off during
>>>>>> the night. It was necessary to unplug the power adapter and plug it
>>>>>> back in again to restart her PC. Once the machine was back on and
>>>>>> successfully rebooted everything was fine. It runs flawlessly.
>>>>>> Someone suggested that the surge protector to which this machine is
>>>> connected was doing its job protecting it from being fried.
>>>>> These
>>>>>> shut-downs occurred three times during the past week. Otherwise
>>>>>> we've been able to run the computer overnight without problems. We
>>>>>> may just have to shut it down manually before we go to bed until a
>>>>>> technician can check it out. Someone is supposed to come on Friday
>>>>>> to troubleshoot  this issue
>>>>> along
>>>>>> with some issues with some of our other devices. I've heard of
>>>>>> computers shutting down by themselves unexpectedly so this is not
>>>>>> new to me. I'd be curious to know if there are any settings I can
>>>>>> check that may be responsible for this behavior. Any suggestions
>>>>>> will be
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Peter Donahue
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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