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Can a PC be set to boot up upon receiving stand-by power?
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SavannahLion:
Did you read all of his post or just that one sentence? It doesn't happen often but you need to place his question into context.

My answer covers his final question since you already covered the previous questions. My comment about confusion covers his CMOS comment. Anything else that needs to be covered?
lilshawn:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on October 27, 2012, 12:17:34 pm ---Did you read all of his post or just that one sentence? It doesn't happen often but you need to place his question into context.

My answer covers his final question since you already covered the previous questions. My comment about confusion covers his CMOS comment. Anything else that needs to be covered?

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i see, i see, fair enough...I must have glazed over that part. My bad. I think I had to do a #2 when I wrote that post. :-[

relays are the best way i know of. It's how we turn our jukeboxes amplifiers on and off with the computer.

you could buy a smart strip, or you go a whole other direction and DIY. you wire up a momentary switch (arcade button on top or wherever) to the power button of the computer to turn it on... BAM, ON! easy...you are doing a script to shut it down. cool. done. computer is set.

you buy a few 12 volt relays rated for 10 amps (about $2 each) and wire up your AC powered items (monitor/marquee light/other power supplies) to the relays. http://www.reuk.co.uk/buy-12V-10A-RELAY.htm

(I can draw it out if it sounds confusing or you are unsure how you would do that)

the relays are powered by the 12 volts coming out of the computers power supply when it's on...in turn activating the relays to turn on the rest of your AC powered items.

everything gets killed when you shutdown. computer shuts down and powers up like a normal computer.
leapinlew:
One additional comment.

I haven't seen a laptop that had this option. All my desktop boards do and flipping the switch on the wall sends power to all the machines and they all bootup, but any machines I built with laptops require the laptop to be powered on by pressing the power button.
Wade007:
Thanks everyone for your input, suggestions and comments. Feel free to post other comments as they occur to you.

I'll do some experimenting based on this info along with some more research and let you know how it turns out.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on October 28, 2012, 11:47:43 pm ---One additional comment.

I haven't seen a laptop that had this option. All my desktop boards do and flipping the switch on the wall sends power to all the machines and they all bootup, but any machines I built with laptops require the laptop to be powered on by pressing the power button.

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When you think about, that makes sense. The power on after power fail hails from server-centric computers. These types of machines have features to maximize up time.

Laptops are for a different market and hence, it doesn't logically make sense to have that feature.
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