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    Your thoughts on leaving a laptop on for a period of time.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by spookyu, Jun 22, 2006.

  1. spookyu

    spookyu NBR Zombie Expert

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    Well, I was just wondering what people thought about leaving a laptop on for a peroid of time (lets say overnight, 10 hours or so). Just wondering because theres a few files I wish to download that might take all night, and I was wondering if there might be any side effects for leaving it run such a long time (overheating, or the like). Probably wouldn't do this every night, but maybe once in a long while.
     
    spookyu, Jun 22, 2006
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  2. lku

    lku Notebook Consultant

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    It won't hurt your laptop. I do this from time to time and no problems. There are a few threads about this topic try doing a search.
     
    lku, Jun 22, 2006
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  3. Iter

    Iter Notebook Evangelist

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    If you concern the overheating or another thing issue, you have to think what location your laptop put such as furniture, a temp. of environment, security, some kids are easy to touch, or a pet.....
     
    Iter, Jun 22, 2006
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    i have left my laptop on straight for 3 days....just make sure it has ventalation
     
    Geckoboy86, Jun 22, 2006
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  5. Tim

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    There shouldn't be a problem with leaving your laptop on all night.
    Tim
     
    Tim, Jun 22, 2006
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    Certainly not. I have a laptop right now that runs very hot (P4 cpu) and its been up for a month so far with just some rebooting. Just monitor the ventalation/heat
     
    otaku, Jun 22, 2006
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  7. spookyu

    spookyu NBR Zombie Expert

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    Ha, yeah, I guess so. I was just a little paranoid because i used to have an old averatec that I left on most of the time and I sort of thought that was what contributed to its...umm....death (it started overheating REALLY baddly and it would crash about every hour or two). Yeah, the e1705 (what I have now) is a DTR so I geuss they took that into acount when building it. Off I go to defragment my disks (thats ussualy an all night job).
     
    spookyu, Jun 22, 2006
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  8. RogueMonk

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    All of mine are on 24/7 running at full load, folding. No problems.
     
    RogueMonk, Jun 22, 2006
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  9. warlord

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    There's no issue leaving your notebook on 24/7 just remember that the vents will accumulate dust much faster so be sure to clean them often...
     
    warlord, Jun 23, 2006
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  10. wearetheborg

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    How do I clean a vent ? Do I need to open up the computer (IBM T30)
     
    wearetheborg, Jun 23, 2006
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  11. factory81

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    I left my L2000 notebook on from the day I got it, running folding@home at that. My first notebook, so I cannot compare. But you notice that the fans do run....all the time. The fan kicks on at 55 C and it stays on non-stop. Because of this, the fan did get dusty rather quick. It never gave me a problem though because of heat or dust. If anything the fan was noisy and non-stop.
     
    factory81, Jun 23, 2006
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    JMiles, Jun 23, 2006
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