Karen Shaeffer wrote: <snip> > If the motherboard is powered down, then the IPMI board can > restart it and can also report failures at the system board level. > So the system board power distribution must be distinct from the > IPMI power distribution, even when they connect to a node on the > system board that has power all the time. Is that reasonable? If > so, then it appears to me that a full IPMI implementation on the > system board would need that distinct and independent power > distribution that used to be on the daughterboard, if that > capability is to be maintained. That is all I really meant with my > comment. You want a persistent, fault tolerant +5V supply. Anyone have any thoughts about exactly how stable +5V standby off the PCI rails really is?
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