no other drives, video cards, etc.ĮDIT - what if I just set up a cron job to run daily at a specified time for "sudo poweroff" and let the computer's BIOS handle the power-on in the evening? That way if I could have the BIOS kick it on at 6 pm and power off at midnight, that way the system is only running 6 hours a day, cutting its up time down significantly.Īt the same token, I still have to wonder, if this box is sitting idle most of the time, I wonder if it's even using a significant amount of energy worth worrying about.
I'm playing with GShutDown now to see if there's a way I can have it shut down automatically 6 hours after it turns on. I can't lock it down to a specific day of the week. Thing is, I can only specify it by every day, or a specific day of the month. On top of that, the BIOS had specific times I can fire up the computer as well. Nonetheless, I'd still like to find a way to kick this guy on at a specific time. Nice simple way to ensure the gizmo turns back on if you don't have a UPS sitting around. Sure enough, if the computer is on and I cut the power, then plug it back in, it turns right on. Stay off was the default, however there was an option for Power On. Yeah, I just went into the BIOS on this system and there's a section under Power listed as "Power After Failure" with a few options. But there are options (usually in the BIOS) to wake-on-lan, wake-on-usb or wake-on-pci, meaning that if one of these components becomes active, the PC wakes up.
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