[NTLUG:Discuss] Disabling ATX softpower switches?

[Jay Urish]

At 11:17 AM 10/22/00, you wrote:
>I'm working on a design for a linux cluster, and need help with a
>hardware design problem.
>
>I need a scheme to keep the boxes on, even after power failures (even
>those failures greater than an hour.) The ATX boards I've seen don't
>have an option to keep the computer booted anytime they are plugged in,
>which results in a person having the physically switch on the box, or
>wait for an alarm, or other trigger.

ASUS boards support power on after power failure..



>  I've been planning to use AT
>motherboards to work around this problem, but I haven't found an AT
>board that supports high end processors (Athlon/200mhz FSB.)
>
>Solutions in order of preference:
>1. Does anyone know of a AT board that supports a 200mhz FSB?
>2. Has anyone already dealt with this problem and know of a ATX board
>that supports 'always on' or a way to short the switch so its always on?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Michael Hart
>


Jay Urish
Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
www.dalwan.net