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Starting a PC without a Finger

Hello,

Any chance someone here has a easy or slick way to start (turn on) a PC with out the use of a human finger??

I am having an issue with power outages and the UPS can't keep the NVR up long enough, so it shuts down. Then the only way to start is by the use of a human finger. I am looking for some simple(if possible) easy or slick way to start the PC from a dead stop.

Human fingers are not always plentiful or easily trainable at the site. :-)

Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Les

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ABLE1
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Simple BIOS setting, switch on after restore from powerfail.

Grant.

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Grant

You may try the wake-on-lan approach

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Pere

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+1 on the BIOS "On after power restore". It's much easier than wake-on-LAN also suggested here and requires no external input whatsoever. For WoL you'd need to have another computer polling the NVR. I guess it's doable and perhaps some admin server is already polling the NVR to see if it's operational but the BIOS setting is so much easier it would be silly not to have it properly setup as well.
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The PC is free standing. No other PC's connected. So, yes, the BIOS trick does sound like the best choice. I never knew that function was in the BIOS. Never had a need before. Will be on site later this afternoon to make the change.

Thanks again.

Les

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ABLE1

There's lots of solutions, of course; most motherboards will allow a 'start on restore power' setting, and many solutions to rebooting a computer on a phone call exist (probably Ethernet reboots, too). I've got a few computers that I can turn on with infrared remotes.

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whit3rd

The BIOS trick works like a champ!! All is good. Thanks to all for the extra thoughts.

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ABLE1

Some PCs don't have that bios option. Especially laptops and netbooks.

It's not too common among mini-ITX boxes, either, which is weird because many of them will be used in embedded apps.

There's probably some way to booger the power supply.

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Sort of a delayed one-shot (?) to 'press' the power button?

I have a storebought 12V (8-28V) computer power supply that does just that on power up to solve this issue. Yes, I bought it for a low power mini ITX 'puter with an Atom CPU.

Grant.

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Grant

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Isn't there some wire that, if grounded, forces the power supply on?

I bought a couple of mini-ITX boxes from Logic Supply. They checked to make sure they had the right bios option.

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John Larkin                  Highland Technology Inc 
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Precision electronic instrumentation 
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators 
Custom timing and laser controllers 
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links 
VME  analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer 
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
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Yes, that's the green wire on pin 16 of the 24pin (14 on 20pin) ATX power connector.

You might need to pop the PS_ON pin from power plug since it goes direct to LPC chip on a mobo schematic I checked (Intel D510 Storage Reference).

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That would help. My Intel Atom D510MO mobo has the BIOS option.

Grant.

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Grant

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