> 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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