> there is absolutely nothing complicated to have a > > "on power return, boot computer" > > option. it used to be the default.
You all are missing the point. As soon as the motherboard gets power, it starts booting. That is how it has always worked. The problem is how to get the appropriate power to the motherboard in the first place. If you lose power to the motherboard, either because the power supply lost its external (wall) source or because something in the power supply went bad, the computer will boot when power is supplied to the motherboard again. The problem is, the BIOS and the ACPI are on the motherboard and need power in order to function, and they can't tell the power supply to turn on if the power supply is not already supplying power to them. It's a circular regress (or a "Catch 22"). There is no setting to tell the computer start booting when it first gets power -- it does that automatically and you can't disable that "feature". The problem is how to get the power to the motherboard in the first place, and you can't do that with software that doesn't do anything unless it already has power being supplied to it and the computer has already started booting. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
