Is it time to get rid of my computer because it keeps turning on all by itself?
Is it time to get rid of my computer because it keeps turning on all by itself?
I have linked three PCs together with RemotePC and it all works well. I work from my office in Portsmouth while connecting to another PC in Chichester. That second PC will act as the main file server, but today it turned off on its own, which is probably a power loss or just shutting down. I need all these machines running for at least three days straight. My PCs have SSD drives built in. Is it okay to keep them powered up all day long? If yes, how should I set them up? I'm using Windows 7, 10, and 11 on each one. All of them must stay on. Thanks again, Dan
If your computer's power goes out, a UPS (battery backup) might save it. Windows likes to try updating things often, but you can tell it to skip those updates or run them at night when nobody is home. It doesn't matter if the PC keeps running as long as the heat stays safe.
There are just some things I do at work that need a batch file to stop programs and restart the machine. I set up a task scheduler so it runs that file every Sunday. If the power goes out and there is a battery backup, the system shuts down safely. When power comes back on the battery, it starts the computer again. If you don't want a battery backup, there should be a setting in the BIOS to turn the computer back on if the PSU sees power coming back. Another option is that all our Dell computers have WOL enabled in the BIOS and our network switch can send out a WOL command to boot the computer.