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Date:      Thu, 09 Sep 1999 10:35:52 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: damn ATX power supplies... 
Message-ID:  <199909091735.KAA00703@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:56:12 %2B0200." <199909091456.QAA05709@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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> 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




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