how do you turn on your computer?

[imported_Mitchell]

Mines plugged into a UPS, which is always on. I turn the Monitor on and then the PC.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Err, I let it download android pr0n once in a while? R. Dorothy from "Big O" is actually kind of a hottie.. for an android, at least.

Oh... you mean POWER ON... nevermind...

 

[LED]

Mines usually always on but if it is off then I call it in by phone to turn it on...

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

Usually turn it on with my tow since my hands are dirty when I get back from work.

^I don't know how to say what's wrong with that^

 

[montag451]

How do you turn a computer on??

Wow,
they switch on?
well waddyaknow?

 

[Mem]

press a button.

isn't technology great?

Lol...yes I can`t miss that big round power button on my PC .

I normally switch it on in the morning and turn it off at night, just before sleep time.

 

[Hans5849]

depends on the computer, on my main one i press the power button.
on my second computer i had to short it out untill i partsed a case and got a power switch
test computers i have to showet it ou, usually with a screwdriver

 

[Jeff7]

11:45pm every night, it turns on, and a scheduled backup program runs, copying and verifying files to and on another computer. If I want it off, I'll schedule it to turn off after the backup is complete. The next day, to turn it on, I use the power switch.

Pretty simplistic, really.

My other computer is worse. First, the ignition coils need to be primed. Next, the hamster is ignited, causing liquid helium to boil. This extinguishes the flaming hamster, while also restricting its vocal passageways. The greatly increased sound of its squeals sets up a resonance in a nearby chamber, which then incites the power switch to activate. Takes a little while, and I go through hamsters like crazy when I'm upgrading components, and testing them out, but it seems to work.

 

[daniel49]

I rip off the cover charge up the old Defibrillator applying several blasts of voltage to the mb battery and loudly scream Its Alive!!!!!!!!
so much more exciting then pushing the button.
::roll:confused;

 

[Zucarita9000]

Originally posted by: daniel49
I rip off the cover charge up the old Defibrillator applying several blasts of voltage to the mb battery and loudly scream Its Alive!!!!!!!!
so much more exciting then pushing the button.
::roll:confused;

Hahaha!.... funny.

BTW, I use Ctrl+Esc. POBK.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Kai920
POWER BUTTON
/end thread

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: her34
i flip on power strip (monitor turns on from power), then case button

what's your procedure?

Powerstrip, push the case button. That's it, usually. If I didn't use the strip, there'd be maybe 30 watts being wasted by wall warts that go to my modem and monitor. Several other components feed to that powerstrip, including two other powerstrips, so any juice they would use is saved too. I don't know if this is any protection from a power surge, but it does save me money on my energy bills.

Sometimes I have the monitor off, and one of the other off-shoot strips off, if I was using my PC as an HTPC. At such times, I don't need internet connectivity and don't use my monitor, but a front projector.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
11:45pm every night, it turns on, and a scheduled backup program runs, copying and verifying files to and on another computer. If I want it off, I'll schedule it to turn off after the backup is complete. The next day, to turn it on, I use the power switch.

Pretty simplistic, really.

I do that sometimes, not lately, but intend to start doing that again. But for me, it's not a backup but recording a program on the radio that starts at midnight. The MB BIOS starts the machine daily, Total Recorder starts recording at 11:59, and PowerOff shuts the machine down when the recording is over. If I don't want the machine to turn on any particular day I have to make sure the main powerstrip is off, something I do as a rule anyway.

The geek shall inherit the earth.

 

[cy7878]

clap on clap off, the clapper!!

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: cy7878
clap on clap off, the clapper!!

LOL

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Hans5849
depends on the computer, on my main one i press the power button.
on my second computer i had to short it out untill i partsed a case and got a power switch
test computers i have to showet it ou, usually with a screwdriver

The guy who sold me my first computer (used) said I should put it on a power strip and turn it on with that, not using the button on the computer. That was an AT mainboard, so it didn't activate the PSU via the button like the ATX cases. Nowadays if you don't want to use the button on the case I guess you can have turn on by keyboard action set in the BIOS and stuff like that. His concept was that someday that button would break. Of course, a year or two later he died from an appendectomy gone wrong.

 

[tweeve2002]

On my laptop I just open it up and it starts booting up.
On the desktop just use the tried and true method of pushing the button.

 

[MisterChief]

Well, usually, in order to start something electrical, electricity must flow through the circuits of the unit. And in most cases, the said "electrical unit" has a swith or button known as a "power switch". Now, theoretically, you must flip/press the switch/button to "turn on" the unit. So, to answer the OP, I usually "press" the "power switch" and, magically, my computer turns on!

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: her34
no one boots computer from keyboard? or has computer boot on power from power strip?

one of my rigs has an annoying boot up on lan thing, where with our dodgy router once it gets a intermittent signal (ie like the networks gone off, then back on again) it will fire up.!! so annoying, i usually turn that pc off on a night, an flipp the PS switch on the back

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Jarwa

Originally posted by: her34
no one boots computer from keyboard? or has computer boot on power from power strip?

CTRL + F1 does it for me. Unless I want bother to opening the door and pushing the power button. I did have it set for any key on the keyboard to turn it on, then I got kids............

how do you set that up?

 

[MrControversial]

Originally posted by: her34
i flip on power strip (monitor turns on from power), then case button

what's your procedure?

Usually I just hit the power button. But if I really want to turn it on, I have to buy it dinner, roses and wear a pair of leopard speedos.

 

[BigPete]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: Jarwa

Originally posted by: her34
no one boots computer from keyboard? or has computer boot on power from power strip?

CTRL + F1 does it for me. Unless I want bother to opening the door and pushing the power button. I did have it set for any key on the keyboard to turn it on, then I got kids............

how do you set that up?

Yes... how please?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Muse
The guy who sold me my first computer (used) said I should put it on a power strip and turn it on with that, not using the button on the computer. That was an AT mainboard, so it didn't activate the PSU via the button like the ATX cases. Nowadays if you don't want to use the button on the case I guess you can have turn on by keyboard action set in the BIOS and stuff like that. His concept was that someday that button would break. Of course, a year or two later he died from an appendectomy gone wrong.

I'm not sure why that is related... unless he did the surgery on himself... but anyways. He did have a point, I know someone that used the switch on the front of their UPS to turn on/off the entire rig, and after a year or two, that switch failed. Even though the UPS manual shows using the switch as a master power switch, he was told by the UPS mfg's CSR that "it wasn't designed to be used that way", implying that the switch died because he mis-used their hardware or something. They RMA'ed it, but he doesn't plan on using it as the master switch any more. Interestingly, the newer models of those UPSes, now have a different power-button arrangement. I don't really see much wrong with using the power-bar switch approach, it's worked for me for years. I just usually simply never turn mine off in the first place.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

I hit the power button.

 

[microAmp]

1- Flip the switch on my UPS.
2- Press button on case.