Power Off with ATX board wont work...

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Thu Aug 11 06:13:46 GMT 2005


I have several boxes with the same problem

you can try to see if there's a bios update, or try to play
around with bios settings, but some motherboards just
aren't compatible with this feature.

Ted

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>Christian Tischler
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>Subject: Power Off with ATX board wont work...
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>
>Hi,
>my FreeBSD 4.9 box (old, but rock solid, and as there are no security
>concerns I do not intend to update it) has to be shut down every night
>to reduce energy costs. But after shutdown is complete I get the "hit
>any button to reboot" or so screen, but the atx power supply does not
>turn off. This is rather anoying. I have compiled in all the relevant
>stuff into the kernel but somehow I have missed something and google was
>not very helpfull, too.
>
>My question would be what I could have missed, and if this could be a
>hardeware problem? It is an old 1.xGhz amd box, so nothing fancy here.
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Christian Tischler
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