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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




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