Nick French wrote:
>
> What I mean is can this timer be set so that it reboots the machine.
> So for instance a piece of software that is running can keep resetting the
> timer to stop the reset then if the software hangs for some reason (after
> all we are all human and I don't think there is much code in the world that
> has all its paths tested 100%) the machine will reboot itself and start
> running through its setup and in turn run the program again. Hence the
> machine can be left in the knowledge that if it hangs it will reset itself
> rather than just hanging like you see some apps on some machines.
>
> If this has always been on motherboards then I whish some apps that I have
> had to use would support it.
This can be done if you read the ACPI stuff in SiS 630/730 spec.
Actually
some M/Bs have the watchdog enable by default, so you need to disable
it on system boot.
Ollie
