From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 9 19:44:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B391537B for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-134.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.134]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA06359; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 21:42:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37D8701F.6657BE5B@airnet.net> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:42:39 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Reilly Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: damn ATX power supplies... References: <199909091456.QAA05709@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199909091735.KAA00703@dingo.cdrom.com> <19990910084249.B17080@gurney.reilly.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message