From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 9 18: 9:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0522D15BDF for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 75635 invoked from network); 10 Sep 1999 01:09:40 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 10 Sep 1999 01:09:40 -0000 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:09:39 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Andrew Reilly Cc: Mike Smith , Luigi Rizzo , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: damn ATX power supplies... In-Reply-To: <19990910084249.B17080@gurney.reilly.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > How is it that BIOS settings can affect this? Do they fiddle > with some battery-backed switch on the motherboard? The ATX power supply has a lead or two that are always powered. This allows the machine do softpower on. It also means that the bios can tell the power supply to go on whenver that the signal is present. Macintoshes have done something like this since the Mac II. most of them had a powr switch that could be configured to always be on when plugged in. I wish someone would make such an ATX power supply! David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message