Re: [Hampshire] Cheap to a good home

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Author: Peter Brooks
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cheap to a good home
On 20/05/07, Damian Brasher <lug@???> wrote:
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> > Stephen Pelc wrote:
> >> Surplus to requirements, collect it from Hill Lane
> >>   Netgear DG814 ADSL router, £5
> >>   Belkin  F6C625 625 watt UPS, £15
> >>     be careful if you want power automatically restored,
> >>     with our server, we have to press the button, so
> >>     we junked this UPS.

> >
> > There's usually a setting in the server's BIOS to govern this behaviour.
> > It's almost certainly nothing to do with the UPS itself.
> >
>
> Nope, Stephen and I spent a very very long hot Friday afternoon trying to
> fix this, that's what we thought. I eventually managed to get through to
> Belkin support, this is not the public one, the real techy support line
> after a long time *pah* and would you believe it they said that this was a
> real limitation of this model - yep it's true, *spitting tacks*;)




Have a look at
http://www.expresshosting.net/howto/atx-powersupply-modification-auto-turnon.html
You can modify your psu to disable the atx power button.

DB
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