> 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. \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message