> any idea on how to force ATX power supplies to restart after a power
> outage without having someone press the 'power' button on the front
> panel ? All the motherboards i can find now have their bios with two
> options:
> 
>       Disabled
>               no automatic restart on power failure

You _should_ be able to change this.

> none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as
> routers or firewalls where an UPS is overkill...

You can always hotwire the supply; go dig up a pinout for the ATX power 
connector and you'll see that if you ground the power-on line the PSU 
will come up...

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