In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, trio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone else run into this related problem? Basically i want to run >server machines. That means i have them on a UPS. But there are times >when the power is off even longer than the UPS can hold up the system. >So, with the new ATX boxes, the power switch is off! Totally! A human has >to push the button to turn it back on. Does anybody know a way to get >around this new "convenience"? I'd like to be able to buy a new box and >yet have it come back up after the power has been off.
On a lot of systems, you can change this in the BIOS. For some systems there is a BIOS upgrade that lets you do this if the old one doesn't. Some other motherboards have a jumper to set powerup on poweron (?). If that doesn't help, you can always connect the purple wire coming from the powersupply to ground (the black wires). At least I THOUGHT it was the purple one. It might be the green one just as well .. It's easy to find; all colors of all wires are printed on the ATX powersupply usually (+12, +5, etc) but the poweron-wire isn't. That's the one you want to connect to ground. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
