Power Question (a bit OT)

[Daniel Buggie]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 09:32 -0500, Tom Spec wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what it is within a machine that gets it to boot up
> again after it has lost power?  
> 
> I have some machines where, if we have a power outage it will crash,
> but then immediately boot up once power is restored.  I have others
> that crash and need to be manually powered on when the power is
> restored.  Is there a name for this feature?  Is there a way for me to
> tell how a machine will behave in this regard without actually yanking
> the power to find out?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom

Check the BIOS section of the motherboard manual or reboot the system
and look around the BIOS menus.  Most of the boards that I've worked
with (that have the option) refer to is as "AC Power Loss State" or
something like that.

Daniel