My primary desktop which runs double-time as a web/file server had about 4.5 months of uptime till power had gone out due to an accident down the road knocking out the power for our road (someone ran into the telephone pole hard enough to knock it over) .

Another time was around 7 weeks but the PSU fan had failed and needed replacement.

.. I really need to get a ups. -.-'

Are those times for a 9X box? If so, that's fantastic!
Rick

I'm looking at eMule's Statistics page and right now it says it's been up and running for 4 days 7 hours and 5 minutes. People around have been saying eMule wouldn't last more than 2-2.5 days without crashing the system - oh well, maybe I'm the lucky one?

Haven't been doing much else besides that though, mostly browsing (SlimBrowser takes up quite some resources), chatting/testing with Miranda IM (also had a few crashes in user.exe during testing), copying/moving files around, editing some office files...

Anyway, resources are quite scarse right now, with the browser open: 12% System and GDI, 38% User. Processes running: 18, including Codestuff Starter, DSClock, DU Meter, FreeRAM XP Pro, eMule. All these on a 400MHz Pentium II, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128M running in 1024x768 dual-view with Win98SE.

Also wanted to mention that lately this is a record, since the new ISP that took over our old neighborhood network is so lame that it usually drops connection every other day. Power failures during thunderstorms are also regular here and I can't afford a UPS. And heck, when there's such power failure while I'm sleeping, I wake up right away when the fan hum stops.

Well, I got this little 98SE laptop (p166MMX, 48megs ram, 3gig hd, 800x600x16bit lcd) that I've been 'burning in' for the last 2 weeks... no hiccups, no shutdowns, no lockups.

I've been playing Age of Empires, SimTower, SimCity 2000, and browsing the web on it wirelessly (using seamonkey). The only hiccups are on flash pages (cpu too slow for it properly- NO YOUTUBE!!!!)

I must admit, I am **very** suprised it is still running...


Back in the day, my first 98se machine (p150, 476megs ram) once ran continuously for a month... and that machine was a firewall/Tribes game server. I could 'serve' a game and also take part at the same time on the same machine.... at the time, it was revolutionary.

Longest I've ever seen a 98SE box run? over a year. PTEC St. Petersburg. Where I got my first bit of training... Computers for the Community rebuilt machines for needy homes... and their server was a 98se box.

I didn't believe so many people would leave their home computers running days and nights! Well, for me it'll be about 2 days (basically when I fall asleep with the PC on ).

My experience has been an average uptime of eMule under Win98 of 2-3 days, with a wide range from an hour to about 7-8 days. It seems to depend on what you are downloading: If you are downloading for example M$-stuff, the system may crash/hang every hour, I guess their IP-etc-software is not Win98 compatible Also, frequent attempts by unruly hackers and by maliciously modded eMule-versions seem to cause quite a few eMule hangs.

So a frequently crashing Win98 may actually be something positive: Win98 may just keep unwanted guests out and give them the boot.

This post has been edited by Multibooter: Aug 5 2008, 06:37 AM

I used to run a Quake 3 dedicated and Shoutcast dedicated server on a Windows 98 computer. I remember the longest time it was on before rebooting, because I remember there was a power outage and I was so angry that I had to turn it on again. It was something like 68 days or 78 days or something like that. And after it came back up it was up for another 2+ months. Ah those were the days. I still have that computer but it now has a problem with either the motherboard or power supply. I bought a replacement parts machine to cannibalize for it, but haven't gotten around to doing it yet.

I think its a stupid waste of energy and resources leaving it on......

When your done with something TURN IT OFF!!

Lets it rest and be ready for the next time you wanna use it

Actually, the worst wear and stress on a PC is the first few minutes when it turns on from cold...
Anytime someone has problems with old hardware starting up, they can leave the PC running rather than powering off and generally it will work fine for sometime before finally packing up...
Besides, my P3 idles at about 50W...

And... I don't have to wait for it to boot up everytime I need to use it!