Vacation, power outage, how to set so PC comes back up and..

Hello.
If I'm on vacation and there's a power outage, is there any way to make an
MCE2005 desktop system start up again when the power comes back on? Letting
the machine crash would be fine, except I think it won't restart when the
house power comes back on, right?

My old Compaqs used to, (W2kpro) but I'm told that was a flaw, if you
please, in the motherboard & bios.

I'm not familiar enough with Standby or Hibernate to know what they would
do. I just know that if I'm away for a couple weeks, no one will be here to
press that button on my HP.

I never installed APC's UPS software to make my main computer room PCs do
whatever that software would make them do. The UPS is two floors away,
anyway, and I seem to remember they expect you have the computer and UPS
adjacent, connected with a USB cable. This software may or may not perform a
restart. I could buy a new UPS just for this machine, but why bother if it
won't restart it. (I don't want to spend 150$ for one likely to last thru a
day's outage. )

Any ideas? Thank you.

Typically, this is an option in your system's bios. (i.e. On AC Restore:
retain last state or something to that effect). It has always worked
whenever it was an option (but some computers don't give you this option so
your mileage may vary).

If your bios settings don't have that option, then your only real recourse
is to make sure you have an UPS that can last through a power outage. The
bigger the battery, the longer it will last.

--
Gary Tsang
http://www.gtsang.com

Microsoft MVP - Windows Media Center
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp



"lomlfoml" <lomlfoml.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello.
> If I'm on vacation and there's a power outage, is there any way to make an
> MCE2005 desktop system start up again when the power comes back on?
> Letting
> the machine crash would be fine, except I think it won't restart when the
> house power comes back on, right?
>
> My old Compaqs used to, (W2kpro) but I'm told that was a flaw, if you
> please, in the motherboard & bios.
>
> I'm not familiar enough with Standby or Hibernate to know what they would
> do. I just know that if I'm away for a couple weeks, no one will be here
> to
> press that button on my HP.
>
> I never installed APC's UPS software to make my main computer room PCs do
> whatever that software would make them do. The UPS is two floors away,
> anyway, and I seem to remember they expect you have the computer and UPS
> adjacent, connected with a USB cable. This software may or may not perform
> a
> restart. I could buy a new UPS just for this machine, but why bother if it
> won't restart it. (I don't want to spend 150$ for one likely to last thru
> a
> day's outage. )
>
> Any ideas? Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>