Hey everyone,
i have build my own server and im running windows 2003 and its faster then xp and i love it, i want to leave it on 24/7 so my brother can connect to the domain any hour of the day without making me tun on the server on and off constantly, but im scared but psu will blow because i once was building an old p166 with a at psu and it blew up. i have a 350watt psu with 3hdd's/cdrom/aopen mobo/floppy/3 x 128mb pc100/p233 (100 x 2.5)=250 and i have an agp vid card and a nework card. will my psu be good for all this cuz ive learnt this saying"
"There are only two things in a computer that can kill you, the psu and the monitor!"
please help me out i wanna run this 24/7 without having to worry abotu something when im at school or out or sleeping. my case is quiet so im not worried about noise or anything

Thx in advance!!!

Don't worry, PSUs are designed to run 24/7.

Providing it is properly ventilated and is not being over-run then there wont be a problem.

I once had control of a server that ran continuously for nearly two years. It wasn't running Windows though it was Novell. It was a thunderstorm that finally brought it down.

Stuart

ty one last thing, do i actually need case fans inside my comp becase on my sisters comp she has a case fan in the front and a cpu fan in the back (an actually fan that looks liek a psu attached to her comp. Do i need a fan because i have a sot in the front of my case with four holes and my mobo has a pic that says "fan" the manual says it's for a case fan and im wondering if im gonna run this 24/7 do i ned one?

Thx in advance!!!
Darin Luckie
AMD k6-2 550Mhz
384MB PC100
aopen ax59pro
3gb hdd, 2.5gb hdd, 2.5gb hdd, cdrom, floppy, 350w psu, ati radeon 7000 64MB AGP!
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edi

You probably do - that's what is meant by well ventilated. A fan sucking air in at the front and one blowing air out at the back in addition to the CPU fan should be the minimum requirement.

Monitor the temperature and if the temperature remains steady at an acceptable level after an hour or two of running then its going to be fine.

Stuart

thank you and i have a have a slot but i dont think i have a fan in front, i do have a temperature gauge on my motherboard and everything is fien the cpu is usually around 38-45degrees celsius is this normal?
I dont know the temp of my case because since their is no fan in the front i cant tell??? anyways thank you for all ur help... oh btw im wondering how to make my comp so that when i hibernate it dosnt turn off, i know my neighbour has a new comp and when she hibernates she is still connected to the internet and all??

Thx in advance!!!

38-45 degrees C is fine. Thats well within acceptable limits.

You cannot not make you computer turn of when it hibernates - thats the whole point of hibernation, it turns off. It dumps the contents of memory to the hard disk and turns itself off. When it wakes up it reloads the contents back into memory and carries on from where it left of with the same applications loaded. If you have hibernation enabled you will have a file in the system folder called hiberfile.sys. This file just happens to be the same size as your installed memory.

If you have a suitable network card and a motherboard that supports it, you can enable Wake on LAN (WOL) which will bring the computer out of hibernation when there is activity on the network interface card.

I you don't want it to turn off you will have to disable hibernation altogether and just allow it to go into standby. You also need to make sure that network activity will bring it out of standby.

Stuart

ok thanks for the info, but my neighbour nibernates her comp at night and she is still signed on msn and all and everything and she can download movies as well !!! while hibernating her comp, my friend has told me it has something to do with acpi power management is this true??

Thx in advance!!!
Darin Luckie
AMD k6-2 550Mhz
384MB PC100
aopen ax59pro
3gb hdd, 2.5gb hdd, 2.5gb hdd, cdrom, floppy, 350w psu, ati radeon 7000 64MB AGP!
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edi

Hibernation has a lot to do with ACPI. However, if she is downloading movies and things she is not hibernating, probably just standby.

Hibernating removes the power, the fans stop, the CPU stops, everything stops just as if you had pressed the power button. There is a small amount of power going to the motherboard, but just enough to bring it back into life. The only difference is that the contents of memory are dumped to the hard disk so it resumes where it left off.

Stuart

thank you all for this info,
my last concern is a bit of a pain. When i upgraded my psu from 250-350w i have everythingh hooked up and wonrking but my only problem is when i go and shutdown it dosn't turn off the power completely. im running win 2k3 and i have hibernate disabled and there is no sign to show apm or not in the power properties and yes i have an atx psu! what on earth is wrong?

Thx in advance!!!
Darin Luckie
AMD k6-2 550Mhz
384MB PC100
aopen ax59pro
3gb hdd, 2.5gb hdd, 2.5gb hdd, cdrom, floppy, 350w psu, ati radeon 7000 64MB AGP!
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edi

Its probably just going into standby. If you press and hold the power button for four seconds, it should shut down completely.

There should be a setting in the BIOS to control the behaviour of the power button. You can also set the power button behaviour from control panel > Power Management.

Stuart

no thats not it i checked my bios and when i shutdown it says it is now ok to turn off your computer i know something is wrong and it was qworking fine until i upgraded my psu but if i change bac im scared that 250w wont be enough for my 3 hdds and my cdrom and floppy and mobo and agp card and network card!!!!
whats wrong with it???

Thx in advance!!!
Darin Luckie
AMD k6-2 550Mhz
384MB PC100
aopen ax59pro
3gb hdd, 2.5gb hdd, 2.5gb hdd, cdrom, floppy, 350w psu, ati radeon 7000 64MB AGP!
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edi