Poll: longest time having PERSONAL computer running.

[SinNisTeR]

whats the longest you've had your own system, not your friends, bosses, gf's, etc.

 

[srvblues00]

26 days with win2k and still stable.. it went down thanks to a power outage

 

[Snuffaluffaguss]

bout a week

 

[dullard]

My personal systems run Win95 and Win98. The memory gets more corrupt with each program close. I open and close many programs when I use the computer. Thus if I don't shut down everyday, it will crash on its own. The longest I ran was about 2.5 days. Sure I could run RC5, Seti@home, a server, or something else that runs constantly - then I wouldn't close the programs and wouldn't get the corrupted Windows. However, those certainly are not good tests of a computer's stability. Plus the cost of electricty outweighs the potential benefits to me.

At work, I leave them on for weeks or months at a time. That is how long it takes to get some of my problems solved. I run Win2k to avoid the Win9x issues.

 

[CraigRT]

the longest I had my PC running was about 45 days
I had to re-start to install some stuff.. It would have uptimes even larger but I just can't go without restarting for whatever reason from time to time...

 

[flot]

My home system almost never crashes anymore. Learned the valuable lesson that the more garbage you install, the less stable you'll be. So I am VERY selective about what I put on and voila the thing works a lot better now. Win2k helped, too. I use win2k at work and home, and I can't remember the last time I "had" to reboot either.

My linux box on the other hand is usually on for 180 days at a stretch, but it seems that every 6 months I need to move it or unplug it for some reason. hehehe. I think once it was online for almost a year.

 

[notfred]

month or two before I change hardware or something.

 

[SkunkButt]

17 minutes, win98 sp2

 

[KentState]

I can never get to sleep with it on, so unless I'm out of town, it's off every night.

 

[kt]

2 weeks and counting.. almost shutdown in a power outage, but UPS kicked in and saved it from going down.

 

[Nemesis77]

1 week 1 day. Sucking stuff from Morpheus 24x7. Crashed when I fired up CS

 

[khtm]

I had an old satellite pro running Linux for 286 days. Used it as a firewall, web server, and mail server

-khtm-

 

[DnetMHZ]

over 100 days on 2 occasions .. Win2k server and OpenBSD with a UPS of course.

 

[Jzero]

Almost 200 days. Win2k Pro, thanks to the magic of SMP. I kept getting all this hardware and not installing it b/c I didn't want to lose my uptime, then I decided to re-arrange my apt and had to unplug the box to move it.

 

[jjones]

i'm running 98 se and leave it on weeks at a time.

 

[VirusDub]

12 days on WinXP, then RtCW made the nVidia driver crash. Talk about luck.

 

[Juniper]

One month max on win2k. That was the greatest satisfaction of upgrading from win98 to win2k. No more crashes/freeze...

 

[LethalWolfe]

Running Win2k my comp was up for nearly 2 months. But a storm killed the power.


Lethal

 

[BillyBatson]

 

[Masas]

w/out the occasional restarting and things i suppose...
hmmm...
i usually just keep it on ALL the time...so...forever
last time i HAD to turn it off was when i got a new HD...and that was well over 6 months ago...

hey, I'm the reason for this energy crisis...

 

[BillyBatson]

BillyBatson [O/s:Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 2 (5.0 - 2195)/Running, for:3w 2d 15h 59m 18s] [Processer:1-Intel Pentium II, 451MHz, 512KB] [Ram:166/256MB (64.84%)] [Screen:800x600 16bit 85Hz] [Connection:none detected] [Disk, Info:C:\ (0.16GB Free, 1.99GB Total), D:\ (0.00GB Free, 5.86GB Total)]

this uptime of 23 1/2 days broke my previous record on win2k of 19 days. It is still runing and perectly as when i first booted up 23 days ago. My uptime record on win98 was 9 days lol.. and only the first 4 days were trouble free....... i am not trying to see hwo far i can go cuz i think i can go forever, especially with my UPS running