SUMMARY: Ultra AXi power switch.

From: Simon-Bernard Drolet (Simon-Bernard.Drolet@M3iSystems.com)
Date: Mon Mar 01 1999 - 09:47:41 CST


Hi group,

thank's to:

Roger Fujii <rmf@unixbox.lookhere.com>
Elvis <elvis@fallenones.org>
Raymond Wong <negativl@netcom.com>
julius@HTSD.Sertek.COM.TW (Julius Liu)
Daniel Beaudry <Daniel.Beaudry@enter-net.com>

Most of the answers were to put a jumper on J3301, J3320 or others.

The answer that seems to be the clearer is from Julius and it is:

> Hi,
>
> Just short J3302 pin-3 and pin-4.
>

My answer to that was:

> Julius Liu wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just short J3302 pin-3 and pin-4.
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank's for answering, but in the doc, J3302 has only pin 1,2 and 3 ! And it's marked as
> "reserved"...
>
> Simon.

And from Julius again:
>
> Yes, there shows only pin 1 2 3 in doc. But you can see four pins on the MB.
> And it works on our system.
>
> BTW, the part no. of our MB is 501-4559.
>

THis is my preferred answer. Another good one (I mean, working one) is
from Daniel:

> Hi Simon-Bernard
>
> I worked a way to circumvent this problem. I call it patch 14215.
>
> In fact read 14 to 15. On the ATX power supply connector that goes from the power supply to the motherboard, I simply attach pin 14 to pin 15.
>
> Of course this disables any soft power down and the on/off switch in the front of the computer. I really don't care since this computer is meant to be a server.
>
> This method not only works for Sun Sparc Engine but should work for any ATX motherboard.
>
> Disclaimer: I'm not responsible if you blow up your shiny new motherboard.
>

Thank's guys !

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