Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 15:54:44 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: damn ATX power supplies... Message-ID: <199909092254.PAA02192@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:42:49 %2B1000." <19990910084249.B17080@gurney.reilly.home>
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> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > Disabled > > > no automatic restart on power failure > > > > You _should_ be able to change this. > > > > > none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as > > > routers or firewalls where an UPS is overkill... > > > > You can always hotwire the supply; go dig up a pinout for the ATX power > > connector and you'll see that if you ground the power-on line the PSU > > will come up... > > How is it that BIOS settings can affect this? Do they fiddle > with some battery-backed switch on the motherboard? The ATX supply always feeds power to parts of the motherboard; these parts are configured by the BIOS. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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