On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Brian Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > since you mentioned the build page - power company turned off power to my > neighborhood for a day, and the mac didn't auto power back on (anybody know > if you can set a mac to do that?), while my PC seems to have had some part > of it fried. >
ah, bugger. I hate it when the magic smoke comes out. I wish I could email you some spare parts from two pcs I have that I don't really need any more. my old pc used to die after power outages... unplugging the power cable from the motherboard and plugging it back in seemed to do the trick. Some sort of weird reset thing happened. I found this note about auto start for Macs: "the Energy Saver preference pane and check the box for RESTART AUTOMATICALLY AFTER POWER FAILURE ..."
