Jon S. Berndt wrote:
> Andy Ross wrote:
> > last night.  It has a dumb (Asus P5A) ATX motherboard that doesn't
> > know how to power on following a power loss (it comes up in soft-off
>
> You sure you don't have a BIOS setting for that? I've got one on my
> m/b. Maybe you need to upgrade your BIOS?

Sadly, it has current BIOS.  It's an older motherboard, and my guess
is that it's a hardware deficiency.  In order to make the "decision"
to power the motherboard on following application of power, some
circuit on the motherboard (CPU, whatever) needs to receive power.  If
no such circuit is powered, we're toast.  No amount of software can
make a dead lump of silicon compute.

I have the same motherboard in my machine at work, and it has the same
problem.  I've thought about wiring up a switch circuit that will
close the soft-power switch circuit for 0.1 second or so following the
application of power...

Andy

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Andrew J. Ross                NextBus Information Systems
Senior Software Engineer      Emeryville, CA
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"Men go crazy in conflagrations.  They only get better one by one."
 - Sting (misquoted)


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