Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:51:25 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: [off-topic] ATX-boot after power outage? |
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm having the following problem: > > an ATX-power equipped server that is supposed to be all the time on, but > downtime is not critical. > > When there is a power outage, the server loses power (which is ok, fsck > tolerable). > > Now, when the power comes back, the server won't boot automatically, but > it needs to be started by pressing the power-button. > > Is there any way of disabling this (default ATX) behaviour so that the > server will start whenever power is reapplied? > > Using an UPS is not the solution. Imagine that the UPS will tell the > server that "hey, we have no power, please shutdown now". Server > complies and turns itself off. Now when the power comes back on line, > the UPS will forward (hmm) that to the server, but the server does not > know how to start itself. > > At one location I was thinking of using Wake-On-Lan since I have a spare > old AT-powered computer which can (after power is back) send WOL packets > to the servers. But in some places all the servers/computers are ATX. > > So, ideas anyone?
This seems to be a BIOS-controlled "feature". Early Abit BP6 motherboards would always remain switched off when power was restored; one of the recent BIOS upgrades added an option to the BIOS setup offering a setting for the board to power up immediately power is restored. The same should be true of other boards, I think?
James.
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