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.





Attachment: pgpxbkgQxIQpr.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Reply via email to