Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 11:21:52 -0700 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: damn ATX power supplies... Message-ID: <199909091821.LAA05593@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Sep 1999 13:43:29 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909091341210.23207-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>
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--==_Exmh_-863467616P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > any idea on how to force ATX power supplies to restart after a power > > outage without having someone press the 'power' button on the front > > panel ? All the motherboards i can find now have their bios with two > > options: > > > > Disabled > > no automatic restart on power failure > > Timer > > restart at a given time of the day. > > I have a new machine here (don't recall which BIOS, haven't seen it in > awhile) that has the ATX settings in two different places. Only one > of them had the option for Last Setting. IIRC one was in power management > and one was in either the advanced settings or in someplace stupid like > peripheral settings. I just got a few machines with ASUS P3B-F motherboards. Their BIOS (AwardBIOS) has a setting called "AC PWR Loss Restart", which claims to control "whether or not to restart the system after AC Power Loss". A quick, one-repetition test, shows that this does indeed do the trick. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-863467616P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: K+IMyM4Qxcg5vowEfNu3IRczI/4x4zKZ iQA/AwUBN9f6wNjKMXFboFLDEQKNXgCgwyT7gKSaTm1ni2xnp+rJ7T3Afr0AoI5p hV1/C7yVVmwqn/YGp9Y9BRdI =o7tW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-863467616P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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