From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 9 16: 2:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 952E3157A9 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:02:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02192; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909092254.PAA02192@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Andrew Reilly" Cc: Mike Smith , Luigi Rizzo , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: damn ATX power supplies... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:42:49 +1000." <19990910084249.B17080@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 15:54:44 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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