From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 9 10:43:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F71152EC for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:43:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00703; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909091735.KAA00703@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: damn ATX power supplies... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:56:12 +0200." <199909091456.QAA05709@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 10:35:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > any idea on how to force ATX power supplies to restart after a power > outage without having someone press the 'power' button on the front > panel ? All the motherboards i can find now have their bios with two > options: > > Disabled > no automatic restart on power failure You _should_ be able to change this. > none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as > routers or firewalls where an UPS is overkill... You can always hotwire the supply; go dig up a pinout for the ATX power connector and you'll see that if you ground the power-on line the PSU will come up... -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message