Yes! The 'power up when AC comes back' needed to be set to 'on' in the BIOS Thanks, Gavin PS. while I was poking around in there I found lot's of cool stuff like the current motherboard temp., fan rpms, hardware status and other machine feedback. anyone know of a utility that will show me this info in gnome or kde? ---------- >From: "Bill Shirley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I assume you have a ATX case. Have you looked in the BIOS setup for a > power-on option? > > Gavin Clark wrote: >> >> >From: Jason Venkiteswaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > forgive the simplistic response, but if the power switch is still in >> > the `on' position *and* there has been no damage to the filesystems >> > when the power went out *and* your machine doesn't choke b/c it >> > tries to boot from a floppy left in the drive... then it's fine. >> >> OK, thanks. >> >> I know on the Mac you have to check a box in a control panel; you can > switch >> "reboot when power comes back on" off via software. just seeing if there's > a >> way to do that in linux. > > neat, but wouldn't that be dependant on the case you have? macs and > some atx cases don't have `manual' on/off switches. they're more > like a toggle. with that, though, i can't help. > > jason. > >> > but a small ups might be a better way to go then allow the >> > filesystems to get killed like that. >> >> got one. >> >> > jason. >> > >> > Gavin Clark wrote: >> >> >> >> What do I need to set to have my mandrake box come back up after a > power >> >> failure. >> >> It seems to work but I'd like to know why so I don't screw it up. >> >> >> >> thanks, >> >> Gavin > >
