From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 9 11:22:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from stennis.ca.sandia.gov (stennis.ca.sandia.gov [146.246.243.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B33E14EF1 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@stennis.ca.sandia.gov) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by stennis.ca.sandia.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05593; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909091821.LAA05593@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 04/14/1999 To: Vince Vielhaber Cc: Luigi Rizzo , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: damn ATX power supplies... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Sep 1999 13:43:29 EDT." From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Url: http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-863467616P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 11:21:52 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-863467616P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > any idea on how to force ATX power supplies to restart after a power > > outage without having someone press the 'power' button on the front > > panel ? All the motherboards i can find now have their bios with two > > options: > > > > Disabled > > no automatic restart on power failure > > Timer > > restart at a given time of the day. > > I have a new machine here (don't recall which BIOS, haven't seen it in > awhile) that has the ATX settings in two different places. Only one > of them had the option for Last Setting. IIRC one was in power management > and one was in either the advanced settings or in someplace stupid like > peripheral settings. I just got a few machines with ASUS P3B-F motherboards. Their BIOS (AwardBIOS) has a setting called "AC PWR Loss Restart", which claims to control "whether or not to restart the system after AC Power Loss". A quick, one-repetition test, shows that this does indeed do the trick. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-863467616P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: K+IMyM4Qxcg5vowEfNu3IRczI/4x4zKZ iQA/AwUBN9f6wNjKMXFboFLDEQKNXgCgwyT7gKSaTm1ni2xnp+rJ7T3Afr0AoI5p hV1/C7yVVmwqn/YGp9Y9BRdI =o7tW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-863467616P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message