Timeline for Windows 10 PC with SSD harddisk: possible problems due to regular power cuts?
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| May 20, 2022 at 8:03 | comment | added | Mastaxx | Why not write a script that shuts down the pc at a specific time every night (just before power cut)? | |
| May 19, 2022 at 17:26 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | @user3384674, this really isn't the venue for hardware recommendations. Probably any of those in the Amazon search might work -- with the caveat that someone would have to restart the player in the morning. | |
| May 19, 2022 at 17:23 | comment | added | user3384674 | @DrMoishePippik Thanks. Could you please let me know the brand and type of your player? Thanks. | |
| May 19, 2022 at 17:19 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | You might look at this search, for example. My TV has a US$35 player connected. That said, the player might not restart on its own. You might also put the OS and app for the mini-PC on a flash card (e.g., xD) that has a read-only switch. Easy to do with Linux, problematic for Windows or Mac. | |
| May 19, 2022 at 16:27 | comment | added | Cpt.Whale | @user3384674 Why not create a scheduled task that shuts down the PC at a specific time? rawinfopages.com/tips/2016/01/… | |
| May 19, 2022 at 16:17 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I've been away from the industry too long to know what's current, sorry. We used to have our own built for us in China, so I never was really involved in the B2B market for them. They do exist, as this is big business now. Every store, every train station & bus stop has one these days. They seem to market them these days as 'digital signage' rather than 'media players'. I found some budget alternatives googling "budget digital media video player" | |
| May 19, 2022 at 16:01 | comment | added | user3384674 | @Tetsujin: Thanks. I searched extensively online to buy a very simple affordable media player. But all I found was media players for streaming purposes etc. e.g. with Android. This seems not suitable for my purposes. Can you recommend a simple media player? | |
| May 19, 2022 at 15:54 | comment | added | Tetsujin | A UPS will shut it down, but sensibly for an installation you don't want to be running any type of 'computer' you want a hardware player that will not mind having the power dumped every day & will start playing within 30s of power being re-applied. [Background, I used to supervise thousands of such players, plus a whole bunch of computers trying to do the same task… badly;) | |
| May 19, 2022 at 15:34 | comment | added | JW0914 |
A similar question was asked ~2hrs ago with an answer there you may wish to implement. A UPS (pure sine wave only) would be ideal to cleanly shutdown the OS, as a flag is set within a specific configuration file in a subdirectory of %WinDir% when a dirty shutdown occurs (this is also why after a dirty shutdown the OS should be rebooted normally to clear the flag); every time Windows boots, it reads this file prior to presenting the GUI for user interaction. Repeatedly/always performing a dirty shutdown will lead to filesystem corruption.
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| May 19, 2022 at 15:27 | history | asked | user3384674 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |