Bleak Thursday

[selenay]

I have comments to reply to which I endevour to do today.

Good things today: Best Friend from America arrives for a visit! She's staying with family so I will call her tonight for a nice natter *g*

Bad things today: The weather made my drive in very icky - heavy rain and motorways don't mix. The weather may also affect my drive home so I will be attempting to leave early so that I have has much light available as possible. Also, I am still feeling very tired and drained from being ill and I really want to go to sleep.

In other news, my PC turned off last night. We've been leaving it on overnight to run reports using the task scheduler, so that was not helpful. Yesterday morning my PC mysteriously had gone into hibernate (I hadn't set it to hibernate...) and none of the tasks were programmed to wake the PC up to run. Yesterday's problems were probably caused by settings being changed remotely (out IT department enjoy doing that to us...) but I'm not sure what happened last night. We're wondering whether it's a hardware fault - which is scary because this is a new PC.

Do any of the computer gurus on my flist know whether setting the PC to turn off hard-drives after a specific idle period will block scheduled tasks from running if they're set to wake up the PC? I'm wondering whether we're having an overheating problem so being able to put the computer into hibernate or even just turn off the hard-drives overnight would be useful if we can still run tasks.

Tonight I am making sure that no settings ask anything on the computer to turn off if idle, I've enabled the wake up call on scheduled tasks, I'll put a stick note over the button and I am keeping my fingers crossed that the PC stays on all night. Otherwise I'm possibly going to be making a call to the helpdesk (please save me from this) to report a hardware fault. If it does stay on then I will start experimenting with hibernate/hard-drive off settings, but just getting it to stay on first would be nice.

Comments

[gmul.livejournal.com]

Just allowing it to power the hard drives down shouldn't cause a problem by itself. Otherwise it may just depend on the rest of your power settings, both within Windows and possibly the BIOS (particularly with regard to switching back on if there has been a power failure of some sort, say).