topic Re: Does holding power button to shut down damage hardware? in Mobile and Desktop Processors

Does holding power button to shut down damage hardware?

fc86szy — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:16:24 GMT

Does holding power button to shut down damage hardware?

Re: Does holding power button to shut down damage hardware?

AlHill — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:21:48 GMT

On what? A 50-ton generator, or a computer? If computer, then the answer is NO.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Maybe Windows 12 will be better]

Re: Does holding power button to shut down damage hardware?

n_scott_pearson — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:58:19 GMT

What it does mean, however, is that power is abruptly yanked from all attached drives and thus corruption of the data on the drives is possible. It can also cause physical failures in older spinning media drives.

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Re: Does holding power button to shut down damage hardware?

AlHill — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 22:58:32 GMT

They would have be very old spinning media drives.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Maybe Windows 12 will be better]