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Can you damage a computer by rebooting too often? I'm planning to leave a machine automatically rebooting every 30 mins (scheduled shutdown task). It's a standard dell x86 running XP.
Colin Pickard
Posted 2010-02-26T18:54:24.020
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Booting up is pretty harsh on many of the components, but they're resilient enough that it's not really relevant anymore in this day-and-age.
Phoshi
Posted 2010-02-26T18:54:24.020
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I would dare give the same advice even in 1990. or round that time, also. – Rook – 2010-02-26T19:02:10.930
Warm reboots? Not so bad (maybe lots of hard disk wear). Cold starts? Much more troublesome. – Broam – 2010-03-09T17:04:04.587
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If your power supply is a bit dodgy constant reboots might damage some components. I've certainly had a dodgy PSU fritz motherboards on reboot before.
ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells
Posted 2010-02-26T18:54:24.020
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In case anyone was wondering why, its not a good reason - http://serverfault.com/questions/117229/windows-automatically-restore-flakey-network-connection/117265#117265
– Colin Pickard – 2010-02-26T18:55:22.240i've added an answer (and vbscript) over there to hopefully cut down on the number of reboots by NOT rebooting if the connection is alive. – b w – 2010-02-26T21:31:12.617
@bill thank you! I'll leave this question open out of academic interest – Colin Pickard – 2010-02-26T23:18:27.100