Re: PC power switch

["Nick Long" <n.long@xxxxxxx>]

if you're having problems doing that, you could always have a jumper set on
the motherboard to permanently short the "power on" pins?

someone correct me if this will cause a huge melt-down and fire...

-Nick

----- Original Message -----
From: Graeme Thomson
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] PC power switch


should be an option somewhere in the bios (all the machines i have do)
t reboot after power failure.  when the power comes back, it'll just
boot up again.
On 9 Nov 2003, at 17:55, Robin Edwards wrote:

> I was running my HA server on an old PC.  As a result of upgrading my
> sons PC
> including a new case I moved the contents of my PC to his old case for
> a
> number of reasons.  My old case had a real on/off switch, the new one
> has a
> momentary switch (I guess ... not an expert here).  Now, my request
> for help.
> We live in an area where we have a power fail maybe every 3 months or
> so,
> normally when we are away for a few days.  With the old PC it would
> automatically reboot Linux and Misterhouse would come up once power
> returned.
> The result was that I could look back on the log of actions and get a
> rough
> idea of the outage time and duration.  Now I just return to a PC that
> is
> powered off.
>
> Short of changing the case again can anybody suggest something I could
> do to
> get the new one working like the old one did?
>
> robin
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