Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:42:39 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: damn ATX power supplies... Message-ID: <37D8701F.6657BE5B@airnet.net> References: <199909091456.QAA05709@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199909091735.KAA00703@dingo.cdrom.com> <19990910084249.B17080@gurney.reilly.home>
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Andrew Reilly wrote: > I have an ATX system that must be looking for a keyboard-located > power switch of some sort. It won't power up unless I unplug the > (PS-2) keyboard, and then plug it back in again. That seems as > though there's something fairly complicated in the system that _is_ > being powered up. They are looking for the power on button :-). Usually the space bar is used to turn the computer on from the keyboard. It's an option, usually set by jumper. Maybe the dolts want PCs to be more like Macs. (Oops, wait, Sun did that too, didn't they?) -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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