Longest Windows Uptime?

[Rogue]

What is the longest you have ever had a Windows based computer/server up before rebooting. We have a WinNT 4.0 SP5 Proxy server up for over 125 days now without a reboot. Naturally, it's a Compaq Proliant also, which always helps.

 

[Train]

a guy I work with had his pc running for over 6 months on Windows 2000 Beta 2, the only reason he turned the system off as to install the final release version, which has been running since without a single crash

 

[randomlinh]

I've had my win98 system up for 99.5 hours 🙂 Had my dial connection going that long too. But then i kicked the AC adapter off the modem.... grrr.. so then i took the oportunity to reboot cause things were really sluggish

 

[Digobick]

2 months running now with Windows 2000 Final. Would've been 6+ months except I had to shut down to move.

 

[LarryJoe]

If you use Windows 98, a more appropriate question would be how many times do you reboot per day?

LJ

 

[Train]

I think win 98 is pretty stable, when i was up at school on a T1, i rebooted about once a week. and i relly put a lot of stress on my system as well, ran visual studio apps all the time, not to mention a lot of other junk

 

[Eug]

I have had my Windows 98 running several weeks at a time. I just shut it off because if there's anyone sleeping in the same room, the fan noise is too much.

 

[RSI]

Sometimes my downstairs system (Win98) is running for nearly a week without shutting down.. it's a fairly stable operating system when not under too much stress...

My main computer (P83/Win95b) never stays on for more than 2 or 2 and a half days.. simply because it can not take it, things will eventually start to cause illegal operations or slow down. And at P83 speed, you don't want them to slow down any more than they have already.

-RSI

 

[Prodigy^]

LarryJoe is right 😛 I've had 15 hours uptime maybe, while chatting, icq'ing, mail'ing, surfing and playing online.....

something always happens though...I think I reboot from a cold crash maybe 3-5 times a day. i also install a lot of stuff and use all kinds of programs.....

 

[Train]

probably a memory leak somewhere, one of your applications is bad, i used to have that problem with an older version of winamp, had to reboot all the time, but they caught the bug and now i can run it forever with no problems.

 

[LarryJoe]

Well obviously you Windows 98 users that have 3-5 days up time are not doing much with the machine and you definitely are not playing hardcore 3d games regularly. Sure if I used my machine for Quicken and email I could probably run the thing for 365 days straight without rebooting. There is absolutely no way under 98 that you can play Q3, UT, NFS5, MM2, MDK2, SoF, Half Life, etc..all in a row without having to reboot at some point. Same goes for burning and watching DVD's. When you stress your machine to the max under the Win95/98 kernel, it simply can't take this over and over without a reboot. This goes for a new fresh install or a 6 month old install with every shareware goody loaded in the startup.

RSI - P83? LOL🙂🙂🙂 - Hell at that speed I wouldn't have to reboot either as it is pretty useless, if you can't use it, it won't crash.

LJ

 

[Train]

i have played all those games when i was in my dorm, and like i said, i rebooted once a week at the MOST, i played at least 2 of those games listed for at least 30 minutes each, each day, besides, some of the C++ compiling i was doing for classes taxed my system much more than any 3d shoot em up ever could. and when i was gone, my computer was always being used by my roomates, one of which was into architecture (lots of CAD, LOTS of memory) and the other, well he was just into porn, but the PC was always working, and i probably actually NEEDED to reboot about once a month due to it getting sluggish or windows crashing

 

[RSI]

LJ - hehe.. yeah, it's not useless at all... I share files, play network games of Quake, Quake II, Red Alert, Starcraft, etc.. I would play Half Life, but I can only run it at 4.7fps 🙁

I run Win98 now.. I always have ICQ99b and Outlook Express open, I always have several internet explorers open, a few folders, a couple programs here and there, Visual C++, WSFTP or CuteFTP, Notepad, etc..

Does everything I need it to do.. it is a little laggy I know, but it works, and it isn't unusable. 😀

And I have gotten a few days without a reboot with it, but there are no 3d games with this system 🙂

-RSI

 

[BlackFalcon]

Come on LarryJoe give us poor Win98 guys some slack. Besides, not all systems with Win98 crash that much when under heavy load. I admit that it is definitly not a very stable system. However, if you work with it under the hood it will sometimes cooperate. 🙂
I run my Win98 system running for about 2 weeks before rebooting. Even then I don't notice much slowdown. I just turn it off for a while to let the old baby have a rest. 😛 And yes, I do run intensive programs. 3d games, graphics editing, continuous RC-5 decrypting, etc.
It does lock-up if a particularly bad tempered program makes its way in here. For some reason I've noticed that PCGAMER cds cause a huge slowdown on every system they get put in. Anybody else see this? Just curious.

 

[Lohan]

Check your System Performance % immediately after reboot and then again after running several apps. Win98 loses performance the longer it runs (memory leaks, etc.). My machine boots at 96% but drops as low as 83% after hard use. Of course, if your system isn't optimized, you're probably booting at 83% 🙁

 

[LarryJoe]

Ok, Ok. I am a Win98 user like the rest of you. Unfortunately, I reboot at least once a day. I could probably format and reinstall and make it more stable, but eventually me and my family will load everything back up and the system will become bloated and it becomes a viscious(sp?) circle of reformatting and reinstalling. I envy you guys with those rock solid systems.

RSI - I was just joking about your P83, all the power to you.

LJ