On Jul 16, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Joshua Isom wrote:

> On 7/16/2011 9:40 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>> Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a
>> i386 without physically being present?
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> Odds are this would be a little bit of a hardware mod.  Get a microcontroller 
> and a relay, and tell the microcontroller to kill power to the system.  Make 
> sure in the BIOS you're set to restart when the power comes back on.  If that 
> fails you'll need another relay to short the on button.  I don't know of 
> anything in the computer that could be easily used instead of a 
> microcontroller.


I think I kinda covered that with the UPS remote control thing... 

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