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    Default What happens when the computer work slow?


    When the computer nods off which components are turned off? Which components are twisted on? And if is there a third state in which the part is at when the computer is "sleeping"?

    Just to verify my thought, when the computer is sleeping, the RAM stays turned on? If so, it's not superior for the long term to at all times send the computer to sleep in place of fully turning off?

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    In sleep type the CPU powers down to it's minimum situation, the hard drives are powered off, the screen is powered off and the USB ports are either powered on or off conditional on the BIOS and OS settings (you may desire to leave the USB ports motorized on so that you can awaken the computer by pressing a key on the keyboard).

    The major component that stays motorized up is RAM memory - this permits a fast restart because the OS and programs don't have to be reloaded from disk. Also, again conditional on the BIOS and OS settings, the system can be woken up by a timed occasion or by special network packets.

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    Thank you for your clarification, can you elucidate slightly more about the watts overwhelming during the dissimilar states?

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    I don't recognize myself but you can observe using one of those Watt meters between a laptop and the wall. If I obtain the time I'll ensure it with my TX2500. The laptop consumes about 20W idle. If I acquire the time to check, I'll let you recognize what it is in sleep.

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    I know that you already calculated the watt use in both states. Can you post them please?
    One of my questions hasn't been replied; does sending the computer to sleep, in place of turning off for large periods of time, harms/damages the RAM?

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    As I mentioned in my unique post, the system depicts 8 watts in sleep mode and 5 watts when "powered down". And certainly it draws 0 watts when I turn off the master switch on my power switching unit to stop any juice receiving to the system at all.

    RAM will not be spoiled by leaving the system in "sleep" mode, or by leaving the system powered on incessantly. I suppose one could create an argument that really turning the system off and on is more damaging since that cycles the modules thermally. In the old days of DIP chips and SIMM modules, over time the chips/modules would really work their way out of the sockets owing to the thermal changes and from time to time you'd have to reseat them. But modern DIMMs have locking clips to stop this and any physical damage reasoned by the thermal gradients has acquired to be so gradual as to be negligible when evaluated to the useful life (5-10 years) of a typical DRAM module.

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    I would like to ask you one query:Is there any spoil to the whole hardware if departure the system in sleep mode in place of turning off (of course in the long term), if not, why is there a turning off form at all (Except of the power saving)?

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    There shouldn't be any injure to the hardware at from leaving the system in "sleep" style. The biggest cause to shut down the computer totally is to save power. The other motive is that using sleep mode doesn't eliminate programs from memory - over time the system could potentially accrued unwanted things like escaped handles or unreleased memory handles that can only be cleared by a reboot.

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    The turning off form is the best because it apparent your memory. IF your memory acquires clogged with a bunch of garbage, a reboot will totally wipe since its volatile meaning it wants power to hold information, once power is gone it misplaces everything. So in standby since your ram is forever on, it can acquire clogged after a while.

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    I would like to ask you another query:what is this appliance that averts the electricity to "leak" to the computer while being turned off? Does the partition with the small red switch (on/off) do the similar work (stopping "leakage" of electricity to the computer)?

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