Restart hurt pc health?

Alan1ar1s

Alan1ar1s

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Hi guys I have a question to make
I heard someone,who has a big experience in computers, telling me that every time we restart our pc we hurt it. It is like we "through a knife into it's heart"?
Is that true? Is restart really hurt our pc?
 
restarts do not affect your pc in the SLIGHTEST. it was a myth that turning pc's on and then off slowly wore down parts, but in reality there is only one moving part in a computer, which is a hard drive. and they are made to start and stop hundreds of thousands of times.
 
That seems unreasonably harsh, I have to restart my PC (hard and software) all the time, particularly when a bootable CD is broken. The systems are running instantly anyway so the only thing you can lose is data that wasn't saved!
 
In reality we all restart the pc 2 and 3 times a day (if not more). But I heard this said by a lot of people and didn't hear any excuse for that. That's why I am asking.
Maybe is that you said only for it's hard drive.
Even though we will continue restarting our systems. Don't we...
 
Most impact this will have on moving parts (HDDs, fans, optical drives etc.) but even that's minimal, insignificant. Also, the warmup-cooldown cycle has a little effect on some chips (mostly GPUs/CPUs, since they heat up the most), but in practice this is nonexistent and is nothing to worry about.
 
To my belief restarting is better for your OS but sure it is a little bad for the hardware. But, taking power away and putting power back on is bad for anything!
 
This person might might have been talking about the surge or inrush of power one normally sees when turning an electrical device on. It's the main reason light bulbs burn out, and the reason you're recommended to either turn them off, or keep them on. The problem with this theory is that it's doesn't apply. The PSU has voltage regulator and conditioner modules to stem this (the motherboard has it's own VRM as well), in effect cushioning or nullifying any electro/metal/thermal-fatigue-migrational effects on the mission critical components inside the computer.

So instead of a "hard" start, that accompanies these detrimental effects, you have a "soft" start which doesn't.
 
Like said above, I,ve ran some 24/7 with just restarts after updates and so on. And shut down some when not in use and havent noticed any difference in hardware failures between them. But I would say you run your hardware failure % up if your the type that shuts down and restarts your computer a bunch of times every day.
 
hermeslyre said:
This person might might have been talking about the surge or inrush of power one normally sees when turning an electrical device on. It's the main reason light bulbs burn out, and the reason you're recommended to either turn them off, or keep them on. The problem with this theory is that it's doesn't apply. The PSU has voltage regulator and conditioner modules to stem this (the motherboard has it's own VRM as well), in effect cushioning or nullifying any electro/metal/thermal-fatigue-migrational effects on the mission critical components inside the computer.

So instead of a "hard" start, that accompanies these detrimental effects, you have a "soft" start which doesn't.
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Now thats getting technical! Makes perfect sense though. Restarting does seem to help an OS though. It kinda makes it more use to doing so and each startup seems to get faster and faster. Say if I leave my pc on for 3 days straight and I restart, it takes forever. But, if I shut my pc down every night and then one day that im using it and have to restart, it is way faster. Does that make sense?
 
When you install a program that needs restart, close all other things.
When you install an OS you will need one or two restarts (that's normal)
But if you have opened 6 different programs and it stops... try task manager before you restart!
After 24 restarts for 2 hours, my motherboard was dead.
It hurts! :)

P.S.
Sorry for my English.
 
pepsi_girl said:
When you install a program that needs restart, close all other things.
When you install an OS you will need one or two restarts (that's normal)
But if you have opened 6 different programs and it stops... try task manager before you restart!
After 24 restarts for 2 hours, my motherboard was dead.
It hurts! :)

P.S.
Sorry for my English.
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many people restart that much (or a bit less lol) in the same amount of time you did, often when i am tweaking the bios i restart a LOT and i have never noticed a difference.

oh and g25racer, i think what you are noticing might be more of a placebo affect rather then an actual difference, though there may be one.
 
the way I am thinking it is that the power supply is there not only for providing the hardware with the necessary power but also to save the hardware for all those sudden up/down, on/off allowance of the electricity. And if you see when we shut down the pc and unplug it, press again the start button to see that there is some electricity in the circuits. When restarting the pc this power is not leaving the circuits so they still "work"...
 
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