RE: DOS Command line X10

[Keith Doxey <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>]

I found that annoying as well because I too have plugboards connected to
the
PC's so that speakers, modems and printers all go off.

One possible way round it would be to fit a relay inside the power supply
to
control the monitor socket. Power the relay from the +12v line in the PSU
and you have a psuedo AT power supply that will turn everything off when
you
shut the machine down.

As an aside to that.... we have Compaq machines at work with ATX power
supplies and I tried in vain to get info out of Compaq to see if they could
be made to boot up automatically after a power failure. They couldnt see
why
we would want to do that when there was a perfectly good button on the
front
for you to turn it on !

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Orr [mailto:Nigel.Orr@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 June 2000 09:20
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] DOS Command line X10
>
>
> At 13:53 23/06/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >Is there a DOS command line X10 prog that I can use to send
> X10 off and X10
> >on commands to an appliance unit to turn my PC's speakers on
> and off when
> >the PC boots up and shuts down?
>
> Having recently upgraded a PC, the new power supply has one annoying
> 'feature'- on the old one, the output mains socket switched
> on and off with
> the PC, so I made up a IEC > 4-way 13A sockets, and
> everything I needed to
> come on and off with the PC got plugged into it (speakers,
> monitor etc).
>
> But the new ATX power supply doesn't switch the output- why
> not?  Is it
> just because they reckon all monitors are now intelligent
> enough to turn
> themselves on or off?
>
> Nigel
>
>
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