Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:55:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATX boards and restart after power failure Message-ID: <19981013105541.U21983@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810121950.MAA15990@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>; from Jim Shankland on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:50:03PM -0700 References: <199810121950.MAA15990@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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On Monday, 12 October 1998 at 12:50:03 -0700, Jim Shankland wrote: > I know this has come up before, but I haven't found the discussion > in the archives. > > We have been building systems based on the Tyan S1572 motherboard > (ATX form factor, TX chipset). It turns out that when there's a > power failure, these systems stay down when power returns until > a human or other mammal presses the soft power-on button on the > front. Furthermore, *this "feature" cannot be disabled*. (On > the equivalent Asus board, the TX97-X, there's a BIOS option -- > "AC Pwr Loss Restart" -- to disable the "feature".) > > Now, I'm as much of a fan of power management as the next person, but > the mind-numbing stupidity of deliberately building a system that > can't be restarted without human intervention after a power failure > has me speechless (well, nearly). Maybe FreeBSD and Linux are barely > blips on these people's radar screens; but have they ever heard of > Windows NT? Or even Windows 95 users who want their machines to pick > up FAX calls around the clock? Assuming Pete McKenna's solution doesn't hold, have you thought of informing Tyan of your displeasure? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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