In the BIOS of many modern PCs you should be able to specify power setting,
something to the effect of these options.

When power returns:

* Last State (if it was off when power went out, it stays off, if it was on,
it comes back)

* Always Stay Off

* Always Power On

I'd check in your BIOS for these settings.

Noah Dunker
Systems Analyst/Technician
Johnson County Community College 


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Theobalds [mailto:mtheobalds@mac.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 4:46 PM
To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
Subject: Jamming a Power Switch


Unfortunately, due to the fickleness of my electricity (electrickery, 
more like) supply, one of the machines went down. A rather annoying 65 
days were taken with it, too.

Anyway, I did the "push in the power switch and rotate it" trick so that 
it will at least reboot.

Now the question is, how safe is this? Or how reliable?

I'm rather reluctant to do it unless I can verify that it is meant to be 
done, and others have found it effective.

Comments, anyone?

All the best.

Matthew