On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:58:24PM -0700, Carl wrote: > I've had a couple of incidents where pressing the reset button actually > powers down the server for 5 seconds or so before automatically powering > back up. Not a big deal, but doesn't instill confidence in this > motherboard.
This is common on Intel CPU/chipset boards. It has to do with one of a couple different things: 1) BIOS: CPU virtualisation support 2) BIOS: Thermal monitoring 3) BIOS: Other BIOS options which I can't remember I've seen this happen on Intel boards, as well as nVidia Socket 775 boards, and Asus boards. It's become "normal" in this day and age; otherwise, see if there's a BIOS upgrade (on Asus boards this usually fixes it; if you change any of those BIOS options, the hard power-off will happen once, but from that point on reset will behave like you expect). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
