From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon May 10 20: 3:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com [209.6.79.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA36F1522E for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 20:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com) Received: from BenGoodwin (dyn2.hamsterville.ultranet.com [209.6.79.23]) by poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id XAA25968; Mon, 10 May 1999 23:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00b701be9b5a$b11296e0$174f06d1@hamsterville.ultranet.com> From: "Ben Goodwin" To: "Jim Shankland" Cc: References: <199905101939.MAA01888@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> Subject: Re: Motherboard comparisons Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 23:02:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It depends on the motherboard. Check the bios settings to see if there's a setting for what to do when power is restored to the motherboard. Often you can set it to "last state", "always on", and "always off" -=| Ben > Can the ATX version of this board be configured to turn itself > back on after a power failure? We found the Asus P5A could not, > which makes the board useless for server operation, in my > opinion. (Yes, I know servers should be on UPS's, but sometimes > they just aren't, and UPS's can fail, and there's nothing like > having to have somebody drive 50 miles to a remote site at 3 > a.m. because there was a 30-second power failure, and now your > server is off until somebody goes and presses the soft "on" > button.) > > We're considering reverting to the AT form factor because of this > stupidity. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message