Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:12:07 +0200 (EET) From: Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 164lx power issues Message-ID: <20021110210210.W346-100000@trillian.santala.org> In-Reply-To: <20021110172827.B83187@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:26:11AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Recently we had a long power outage and we discovered that the machine > > does not automatically power on when A/C power is restored. Rather, a > > human must press the power button to switch the machine on. > > > > Is there a common misconfiguration which would result in this > > behaviour? If so, how do we ensure the machine powers itself back > > on without manual intervention when A/C power is restored? > > Doesn't the LX use an ATX power supply that needs some minor > tweaking for it to work? Yes, you have to connect the green wire to one of the black ones in the ATX power connector to automagically "turn on" an ATX PSU when power cord is inserted or a proper power switch on the PSU is turned on. So to me it sounds like that the power switch on the case has been connected so that when pressed it connects the green to one of the blacks, causing the PSU to power up. If this is the case, the solution is to open the box and do some soldering. Either solder the power switch on the front panel to be always on or do the soldering on the ATX power connector, as it has been done in my PC164. Oh, and YMMV. And it might also be a good idea to check somewhere it really is the green wire... ;) -jake -- Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/~jake/ System Administrator 2001:670:83:f08::/64 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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