[ale] UPS with automatic startup after recharge

[Jeff Hubbs]

"The good news is that my BIOS supports 'Start at power on.'"

Well, I would certainly hope so!

;)

Jeff







On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 16:07, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 18:16, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Recently, MicroCenter has had a good supply of Belkin UPS's. They
> > support Linux with software included! They talk through a serial port.
> > You can configure them to gracefully shutdown the box before the battery
> > dies and then (I think) power itself off for a while until the battery
> > is charged back up a bit by setting a minimum battery power setting.
> 
> Thanks - I will take a look.
> 
> > Some systems support a BIOS setting that will restart the machine on
> > power restore after power fail. That may require the shutdown to only go
> > to single user mode so the system _will_ actually die from power loss so
> > the BIOS function can happen.
> 
> The good news is that my BIOS supports "Start at power on".
> However the BIOS is also part of the problem.
> This is a ASUS motherboard with C.P.R (CPU parameter recall)
> Basically if the CPU does not survive a BIOS startup it will drop into
> "safe mode" and present a menu to change the CPU setting.
> Unfortunately power flickers seem to perfectly emulate wrong CPU
> settings and the machine just hangs there in the BIOS setup screen :-( 
> 
> > Otherwise, break out a solder iron and the "Horowitz and Hill 'The Art
> > of Electronics'" (which any self-respecting geek should own just because
> > they can:)
> 
> The good old times ;-)
> Nowadays you need $$$$$/per year software just to figure out the signal
> waveform/delay from pin A to pin B. (at least for the things that I
> would like to play with)
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 17:52, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > > Can anyone recommend an inexpensive UPS that can start up a server once
> > > power is restored AND it had some time to recharge.
> > > 
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