> > > 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...
>
> It's not just a ground, the line that brings up the power is a momentary
> switch, so a longish (about 1/2 second) pulse would do it. That would
The switch is not connected to the power enable line to the ATX power
supply; it's connected to logic on the system board which in turn (in
some cases) drives the PE line. If you ground the power enable line for
1/2 a second, you will get (at most) 1/2 a second of power.
Sheesh. You could at least speak from _experience_ here.
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