Your asus mb probably will have a power screen in the BIOS setup where you
can tell it what to do when the power comes back on after a failure. The
choices usually are 1) Never come back on, 2) Always come back on, or 3)
Come back to the previous state.
The more sure approach is to remove the wire (usually green) that goes from
the power supply to pin 14 in the ATX power connector. Clip the wire off
at the connector and hardwire it to one of the ground wires from the power
supply. With this wire grounded, the power supply will be on anytime ac is
applied to it.
Karl
At 09:29 PM 3/21/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>I have two linux boxes sharing a APC 650VA back UPS that are networked
>together. One is an old AT based K5 75MHz that spends its days pushing
>and mangling packets and dolling out IP addresses. The other is an ATX
>based Althon system with an ASUS K7V m/b. Communication with the UPSes
>is good and the machines have proven to be able to talk to each other
>when the power is out and shut down properly. I even have them set up
>to have the UPS cut the power after a certain amount of time until the
>power comes back.
>
>Now here is the problem. The AT based machine with a real switch has no
>problems coming back on when the power comes back, but the ATX machine
>with its "soft" switch stays off. I was wondering does anyone know of a
>way to have the ATX based system come back up automatically when the
>power comes back?
