My bios has a setting called "Auto" which is the same thing as Steve's "last". And a boolean on/off isn't the best thing either. I like the Auto option. It's my bios being intelligent for once.
It's not the specified way it should work. The option exists so that a server can be set to boot back up after a power failure, so that it can get back up and serve as soon as possible. By default it is disabled, because you wouldn't want you non-server computer to start up in the middle of the night when power is restored. That Auto option does not provide a single extra thing other than non-compliancy.
Now you might ask "Then Nine, why do you have it enabled?" That is because I use the specification to turn on all my stuff all at once with the flip of a single switch. A week ago I did not have the switch in an easy to reach area, hence back then said option was disabled. If you don't use it for this, or don't have a server you want to have up as much as possible, do NOT enable this option. It's stupid, useless and will only annoy you when suddenly your computer wakes you up in the middle of the night.
Normally you configure the UPS to tell the computer to shut down when power goes out. Instead, why not have the UPS hibernate the computer when power goes out? If power is only out for a short time, your computer will still be hibernating from battery power, and will come back on quickly. If the battery ran dry, the computer will boot when power is restored.
Sorry to bring this back up but a solution dawned on me last night: The DD-WRT and Tomato firmwares for the WRT54G router allow you to schedule wake-on-lan packets to your computer. After a quick search I found this guide on lifehacker which would also let you send it a wake-on-lan packet any time you wanted.
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Now you might ask "Then Nine, why do you have it enabled?" That is because I use the specification to turn on all my stuff all at once with the flip of a single switch. A week ago I did not have the switch in an easy to reach area, hence back then said option was disabled. If you don't use it for this, or don't have a server you want to have up as much as possible, do NOT enable this option. It's stupid, useless and will only annoy you when suddenly your computer wakes you up in the middle of the night.
Normally you configure the UPS to tell the computer to shut down when power goes out. Instead, why not have the UPS hibernate the computer when power goes out? If power is only out for a short time, your computer will still be hibernating from battery power, and will come back on quickly. If the battery ran dry, the computer will boot when power is restored.
My server also has some sort of Wake on USB option mentioned in the manual. I have not read all the docs yet but I will over the weekend.
The DD-WRT and Tomato firmwares for the WRT54G router allow you to schedule wake-on-lan packets to your computer. After a quick search I found this guide on lifehacker which would also let you send it a wake-on-lan packet any time you wanted.
Any help?