On Thu,25.Dec.08, 09:55:32, Micha Feigin wrote: > for the hard disk look into laptop mode, it allows holding writing to disk for > longer periods (cache disk writes in memory for 20-30 minutes) which allows the > disk to spin down. Also allows playing with disk power management (look into But beware, this can be dangerous if you don't have a ups. > depending on the graphic card and driver it may be possible to underclock it > (at least the more expensive nvidias have a possibility to overclock, possibly > underclock as well, with nvidia-settings, don't know about others). > > you can also leave the machine headless (no graphic card) and just log in > remotely. There is a possibility to play with pci powersave but I don't know > much about it. > > As for the graphics card...if you don't use a monitor why not remove it > > completely? As for powering it down, that won't be possible because of > > the way computers are designed. The only "computer" that does this is > > the OLPC. Unfortunately some computers (at least the older ones) won't boot at all without a graphics card and with one card I have you even have to have a monitor plugged in. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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