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Whooooo-Hooooo!

My Win2k box has been running for over 36 hours straight, with no glitches. Not one. The mouse works just fine, all the menus pull up, I can still access my DNS server, and I don't have any programs crashing on startup. Granted, there *IS* a full moon...

Everyone post their longest uptimes, and the OS you're using.

Reply to ejsmith2
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...so? My winxp comp hasn;t shut down for 2 weeks now. Processor is at 63 celcius (1.2Ghz).

NOS and a <font color=red> Ferrari </font color=red> can be fun! :cool:

Reply to flamethrower205

Whoops!

Spoke too soon. All my right click menu funtions make Explorer unstable, and I've restarted twice now. Looks like another crash/format/install fix too me.

Gotta' love NT.

Reply to ejsmith2
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That temp is pretty high. My overclocked processor rarely goes over mid 40s.

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Reply to AMD_Man

Hehe, well considering its been at 100% load all that time..... also, a few months ago my temps suddenly rose (o, and it is the stock hsf, so what do u expect).

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Reply to flamethrower205

Current longest uptime is my god box, which has been up for two months.

The longest uptime I ever had was on my firewall, an old AMD 5x86-133. It stayed up for over a year on a Slackware install with a Linux 2.0 kernel. Then I finally decided to upgrade to 2.2; I figured I had to learn ipchains sometime. The box is now running a slightly patched 2.4.10 and has been up for 40 days.

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Reply to Kelledin

best ive done so far is a shade over 4 days.
win2k
this was with an athlon 1.2 overclocked to 1350 running cure for cancer all the time. 100%

it would have been longer cept i was stuffin round with drivers.

hopefully people will be going on holiday soon. then ill see how stable my mcx-462 equipped system is. :)

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Reply to lhgpoobaa
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uptime? what colour is that???

hehe, I start and shut down my boxes as and when I need them. cant afford to pay my electricity bills for a box that does nothing for hours! :smile:

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Reply to girish

I pride myself for being able to go for 3 hours straight one night... err... oops, just realized what you mean hehe.

I had a linux box running seti for about 3 or 4 weeks. Twice. It stopped once cause my room got broken into and it got stolen, and the other time was cause I had an urge to play CS and had to restart.

I heard one news item that said that there was a company which had a linux box that showed up on it's network for 4 years or something like that, but they couldn't find the computer physically. They finally followed the cord and found out that they had done some renovations and completely enclosed the computer behind a wall. No one knew it was there, and no one would have found it unless it had stayed up and running and visible on their network. It worked perfectly too. Just kept routing the IP packets or whatever it was doing. :smile:

Lyrics. Wasted time between solos.

Reply to silverpig

Some college lost a server for 15 years or more, it kept running and people kept using it all that time, they didn't know where it was. One day while doing some renevations they found a misterious data cable and followed it to a wall. It turns out that it had been in a closet that was walled over during a previous renevation!

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Reply to Crashman

Had a novell netware server runing on a 486 dx2 66 with a 300mg hd runing for 4yrs. must of had half a cm of dust it it. fan had stoped long ago but the thing just kept going. best i can do with my current sysetm is 3 days. i was rendering a big fractal. that was under 98 so its not to bad.

Reply to Secretninja
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Ok.. beat this...
Had an IBM 3741 with a 10mb HDD running, without need for re-boot, since 11/06/1986, and still running today... hows that for reliablility..

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Reply to Wiggy5

Hey, I ran a WinME machine for 2 WEEKS STRAIGHT with it crashing! (Talk about gettin' lucky!) :lol:

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Hmmmph--whatever...

Reply to digital_trucker
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Hey, I ran a WinME machine for 2 WEEKS STRAIGHT


Now, that's more impressive than any others listed. Windows Me is a very crash-prone OS so 2 weeks is amazing.

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Reply to AMD_Man

Ya, I came to the conclusion that ME meant "Major Errors".

Wabbit season! Duck season! AMD season! INTEL season!
Hmmmph--whatever...

Reply to digital_trucker
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Left my computer on for almost a week, using Win98.
It did the job well, doing some serious rendering in MAX.


Destroy him my robots!

Reply to Jake75

My best was 6 weeks with a Win2k server. Finaly had to do a driver upgrade. Now I can't get through one month without getting hacked or some mutant virus.

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Reply to Mavicator

I doubt that very much wiggy. They would have had power cuts over that length of time - and Hdd's are only viable for 3 years and more if your lucky. And that was 15 years. I don't think so.

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Reply to Anonymous

It's possible.

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Reply to Yahiko81

Yeah, I guess we were talking about the same thing Crashman.

Lyrics. Wasted time between solos.

Reply to silverpig

"Some college lost a server for 15 years "

Yeah, I read that article. I don't think it was quite that long (4-6 years), but that still roxx. I can't even imagine a computer staying up for that long. Hell, I have real trouble believing half of these people who say their comps have been up for several weeks straight.

Quit being a selfish ba$tard, and pass that bag of crack you're smoking over here?

Reply to ejsmith2
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With that kind of uptime wouldn't it mean that they never updated any software?

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Reply to dhlucke

I noticed. I heard it was like 15 years, I saw it on a newsite a while back, can't remember the college or anything. But I think it was serving packets or something, and running some version of Unix, which is fairly hard to crash.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Reply to Crashman

"serving packets"?
Can you be a bit more general? lol

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Reply to FatBurger

working with short scripts.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Reply to Crashman

Yep that's what I heard too. They saw it on the network, and I do remember the word "packets" being used. They never really cared where it was because it never had any problems, but then I guess one day some guy got curious.

Lyrics. Wasted time between solos.

Reply to silverpig

Actually, I think it was more along the lines of upgrading the hardware. They knew where on the network is was, but where the hell it was physically, no one knew. Some EE geek grabbed a packet sniffer, and started tracing back, opening up ceiling panels to follow the ethernet cable. They had to chop open a wall to actually get to it.

Can you say "*REALLY* good pr for whatever OS it was running" (i.e. obviously not msft)?

Reply to ejsmith2

Meanwhile mines been doing it's program for a while now and I can't restart it until it's done in a few weeks.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Reply to Crashman
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