From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 12 18:26:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27865 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27855 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:26:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA21131; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:55:42 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA03655; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:55:41 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981013105541.U21983@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:55:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jim Shankland , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATX boards and restart after power failure References: <199810121950.MAA15990@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810121950.MAA15990@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>; from Jim Shankland on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:50:03PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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