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Date:      Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:42:39 -0500
From:      Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>
To:        Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: damn ATX power supplies...
Message-ID:  <37D8701F.6657BE5B@airnet.net>
References:  <199909091456.QAA05709@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199909091735.KAA00703@dingo.cdrom.com> <19990910084249.B17080@gurney.reilly.home>

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Andrew Reilly wrote:
> I have an ATX system that must be looking for a keyboard-located
> power switch of some sort.  It won't power up unless I unplug the
> (PS-2) keyboard, and then plug it back in again.  That seems as
> though there's something fairly complicated in the system that _is_
> being powered up.

They are looking for the power on button :-). Usually the space bar is
used to turn the computer on from the keyboard. It's an option, usually
set by jumper. Maybe the dolts want PCs to be more like Macs. (Oops,
wait, Sun did that too, didn't they?)

-- 
Kris Kirby 
<kris@airnet.net>
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TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.


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