Quote: Originally Posted by
Aphelion 
1) No need to turn the PSU rocker switch off... if you do, you will have to replace the motherboard's backup battery more often as the PSU supplies a small current that holds CMOS memory in place taking the load off the battery. (plus a few other monitoring functions) i.e. booting the computer from a hot-key command.
2) Over time as the drive is used and data written/deleted...etc.. the read/write head has to do a little more work and as a result will become more audible as it moves around searching for data.
Ap
yeah that is true...
if you dont have that little power going to the motherboard... the CMOS is not kept... the power to the motherboard is not kept... so the Powersupply you can say is like the alternator to the CMOS battery. Then again the CMOS battery is littium so it can hold a long charge *lol*
umm your WOL (Wake On Lan) won't work... thats another thing. Some Add On Boards require very little power to be supplied to them...
yeah forgot about those little things.