Mnyb wrote: > What surprised me was that it has no memory backup for this ? I don't think this has much to do with "memory". I surmise either: a - soft power off mode differs from cold power off in the network card status b - when the machine encounters a power failure event, somehow the bios gets zapped to a factory config that has the NIC disabled in power off mode
I've seen b) happen, but typically this would require many power failures in a row (like a machine failing to boot a few times, and the bios rolling back to failsafe defaults). Or a dead battery on the motherboard (sensors should tell you that; or the date reported by the machine early in the boot process.) For me the most probable circumstance is a) and I would try 2 things: 1 - check there isn't a bios option to keep the network card active in cold off mode. 2 - change the power failure mode to "restart", and rely on the OS power management logic to bring the machine to soft-off again after a while. I would prefer option 1) to work, by a mile. Power events rarely come alone, it's probably better not to have the server get caught by a secondary power failure while it is checking its disk drive due to the 1st unexpected restart... (or perhaps you can get creative with the bios scheduled start feature --like: every day at 10pm--, depending of how it behaves when the machine is in soft-off mode, and how you can manipulate this setting from the booted OS...) 4 SB 3 iPeng (iPhone + iPad) SqueezeLite Squeezebox Server 7.6.2 (Debian 6.0) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson Just Covers by Tom Kalmijn WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld Local Player, BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100328
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