Ugh.  My bad.  I thought this was a question on the FreeBSD-Questions
list... Macs don't have a BIOS!  <oops>

I've never tried the 'jam the button in' trick on my macs before... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Theobalds [mailto:mtheobalds@mac.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:17 PM
To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Jamming a Power Switch


On Thursday, April 19, 2001, at 11:03  pm, Dave Huang wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Matthew Theobalds wrote:
>> 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.
>
> After doing that, if the computer is unplugged, then plugged back in, it
> automatically turns on without anyone having to press the power
> key/button, right?
>
> Yeah, that's a documented feature... I don't remember where it's
> documented though :) Maybe I saw it in the manual for the Quadra 650 or
> something... anyways, that's what it's there for, and it works fine :)

Yes, that's basically the idea, and it works nicely too.

My mind is more at rest now I know it's an intentional feature.

Thanks.

Matthew