If memory serves me right, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > 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
> > Timer
> > restart at a given time of the day.
>
> I have a new machine here (don't recall which BIOS, haven't seen it in
> awhile) that has the ATX settings in two different places. Only one
> of them had the option for Last Setting. IIRC one was in power management
> and one was in either the advanced settings or in someplace stupid like
> peripheral settings.
I just got a few machines with ASUS P3B-F motherboards. Their BIOS
(AwardBIOS) has a setting called "AC PWR Loss Restart", which claims to
control "whether or not to restart the system after AC Power Loss".
A quick, one-repetition test, shows that this does indeed do the trick.
Bruce.
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