Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:30:41 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "grog@lemis.com" <grog@lemis.com>, "hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jim Shankland" <jas@flyingfox.com> Subject: Re: ATX boards and restart after power failure Message-ID: <199810131431.KAA25174@laker.net>
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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:46:24 -0700 (PDT), Jim Shankland wrote: >[Re: ATX m/boards that can't be made to power up without human >intervention after a power failure:] > >Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: > >> Assuming Pete McKenna's solution doesn't hold, have you thought of >> informing Tyan of your displeasure? > >Already have. They apparently hear this complaint often enough that >they have a ready-made letter apologizing for the inconvenience; >nonetheless, the suggested remedy is to switch to a Pentium II m/b >and CPU. But this is merely a feature of ATX. Switch to an AT (baby AT, etc.) m/b and you should be free of this feature... I have an ASUS TX97 which is also available as an ATX m/b. It doesn't have this feature, because it's not an ATX m/b. >The subtext here seems to be that as far as Intel is concerned, >Socket 7 is dead, and AMD is positioning the K6 as a desktop/gaming >chip. Maybe the m/b makers are even deliberately trying to migrate >servers to the more expensive (and higher margin?) Pentium II boards. >Or maybe they're just being dense. Intel's been wrong before... >It's a shame, because I'm not crazy about Intel patenting Slot 1, and >I'd like to support AMD just to prevent Intel hegemony, and the >Socket 7/K6 combo is *plenty* powerful enough for my current >purposes; and cost is an issue. Sigh. You are not alone... >We'll definitely be trying Pete McKenna's solution; I'll drop a >brief note saying how it worked out for us. Cool beans... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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