I think mine was like 2 weeks nothing big at all.... how about you?

Maybe about a day. (I don't leave the computer on while I sleep, and I tend to do that almost every day.)

Close to a day here as well. I don't leave my computer on while I sleep either.

I once had a W95 system running for about 3 weeks, when it was doing some data aquisition.

Are you aware of this patch? The existance of the patch proves W95 can run for at least 50 days.

I have my 98SE PC on 24x7 (just turn the screen and other devices off). I only restart if I'm making changes or updates, or if I get a crash or low resource condition.
I would normally be running for many days.
I haven't actually made any records of up time, but I would say that several weeks may have been done before.

I don't usually let the system on. The longest I tried was 41 h, with a perfect shut-down at the end.

Nice!

I didn't know it also existed for Win 95... but I knew of Q216641 for Win 98FE. Turns out they are both versions of the same update. Win 98SE and ME don't have this issue... But, yes, of course you're right: they do mean 9x/ME can run for at least 50 days straight!

not a 9x box but...

Then what's the point of that post, geek?

Nothin. I just noticed the uptime the other day and thought it was pretty cool. I dont usually get to set uptime records because were kinda 'out in the boonies' and our power seems to go out with the slightest breeze around here. Its been on a UPS that gives me 30 min or so runtime for about a year or so but it still goes down frequently. I also think 5/30 was the day i upgraded to 4Gb so that uptime would have prolly been longer. also since its running Vista so if you believe the XP worshipers impression of Vista I must be fighting off BSODs every five minutes. But thats not why i posted it here. Just joining the conversation.

Hey geek, converse on!

I once had a Novell NetWare 3 server (only one used by the entire company), that ran for a continuous 380 days.
I don't think I've ever seen that kind of duration in any OS since...

Of course, that was in the days when the Internet was becoming publicly available, and security from the 'outside' was not a concept...

yeah in truth, that Vista box needs to be rebooted (has had updates installed) and therefore wont get any new updates if available but i havent rebooted it because the only time Im using that machine Im too busy to be bothered with rebooting it. In response to the people that say they dont sleep with their PC on, I have found that when I sleep at someones house that doesnt have a PC or A/C running or when the power is out here (happens in the winter a lot more than i like) I either cant sleep or get woke up because i sense something is 'wrong' if i cant hear the faint hum of fans in the next room.

Yep, there's something comforting about that faint hum in the next room...
You wake from one of those scary dreams to that soft sound of air movement...
I had a long power outage and my UPS exhausted... No PC life signs... Worst night of my life!

geek, do you happen to wake up in the middle of the night, jump out of the bed and run up to the monitor, because the fan speed ncreased, signalig an abnormal surge in processor activity?

You'd probably love that Atom-based ASUS computer. With an explicitly low-power CPU I expected it to have no fans, but that's not the case. So, my quest for a noiseless computer is still not over, but it'd be perfect for you noise lovers (and save power while at it). :)

My 98FE box usually runs for several days between restarts. Most of the time, a reboot is to switch operating systems. I'm very short on usable hardware, one functional PC at the moment. It serves as both default PC and testbox, depending on which OS I load.

Regarding uptime, I have an old Gateway P5-133 with 32MB RAM running Smoothwall. It's been running flawlessly for 96 straight days. The last time it was rebooted was for a power outage.
Rick

wow i could have never pulled that off with my luck

Ive only had my ipcop box left running for a day and a halfish i think, it gets turned off at night awww.

9x ive had on for most of a day i think

Smoothwall uses a Linux kernel. Long uptimes are very normal. Some Smoothwall units run for well over a year between restarts. I'm running Smoothwall 2.0, which works very well on old PCs that can't even run 98 well. It's an excellent way to make good use of old hardware. The total cost was for 2 network cards and one crossover cable. It's plenty fast enough for 864/160 DSL even with a 133MHZ processor.

My 98 box has several user profiles. Logoff is disabled for security reasons. If I can get everyone else to leave it on the default profile, maybe I can see just how long it will run without rebooting. At the moment, it's at 21 hours uptime, 66% free resources with 18 processes running, running fine.
Rick

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.