From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 18:36:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C870414DB4 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.46] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id na449449 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:35:34 -0500 Message-ID: <385AF33B.ECCC79FD@twave.net> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:36:43 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yaroslav Terletsky Cc: Marc Wandschneider , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: auto power on with ATX cases? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yaroslav Terletsky wrote: > Hi Marc, > > This feature is BIOS specific, if you have AWARD BIOS look for > "Power Loss Restart" feature in "Power Management" and set it to "Enable". > > And what I would like to know is why FreeBSD does not turn power off > using "halt -p" as the man page says. Windows makes this pretty easy. > > == > ts > > > so, despite not being really specific to FreeBSD, I figured I'd see if > > anybody here knew the answer: > > > > Is there any way to make an ATX case automatically power up whenever the > > power comes back on? my server right now is in one of these cases, and > > whenever the power goes off, the UPS kicks in, so for short failures, > > there isn't a problem. However, if it's off long enough, off goes the > > computer, and when it comes back on, the computer doesn't start back up > > again. > > > > Is there any way to set it so that it will? > > > > Thanks! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Odd....it works on mine. I'm running an Abit BX6.0 Revision 2 Mobo with APM BIOS version 1.2. Works like a champ. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message