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Automatic power up when power restored?

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by elducko

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I'm running an HP laptop with battery removed (long since died), using XP. When power is interrupted, the machine obviously shuts down, and when power is restored, it stays off. Is there a way to make it start up again, instead, like our old towers used to do back in the "good ol' days"? (Hopefully something software-settable in Power Management, or a jumper to change.)

More background: this machine is being used in a remote location, and this would enable using a mechanical timer or a "dead man switch" to interrupt power from a UPS to force a restart every 24 hours, just in case an application hangs.

Yes, I have a scheduled task that restarts the machine. ...can't guarantee that it will run, though, although probability is high. If the OS locks up, I'm stuck.

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by ---tk---

in the BIOS for a setting (probably in Power management) ... restart when power is restored.

I would also look on Ebay for the same make and model laptop, they might have a battery you could use for cheap!

Towers still have that option in them. :)

by elducko

BIOS interaction via -Esc-, -F2-, and -F12- unfortunately didn't help. HP doesn't let its users get to much, unfortunately. (It's why we stockholders fired Carly?)
No need for the battery- - I still need the UPS to run the DSL modem and router, so adding a battery would add nothing new. Good idea, though.
Maybe resurrecting an old tower is the answer. Failing that, maybe a little soldering and some sort of intermittent contact to trigger the -reset- switch might work. ...ideas, anyone? (...any potential Rube Goldbergs out there?)

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