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No power management option in BIOS at all (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/pcmasterrace

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Hi guys, I bought a cheap LGA 1155 MB with Intel H61 chipset to build a home server but I can't find any power management or AC option to make the PC restart after a power shortage. The BIOS is a American Megatrends 2.15.36. O went through all the menus, the manual shows an option that is not present anywhere. I went to my parents house for the holidays and, guess what? Power went down in my house. Now I'm 300km away from the power button and all my media, music and files are unavailable.

TLDR: does anyone know if I can have access to power management options if I update this machine bios? I'm on Linux, so another complexity layer to update the bios.. Is it worth the trial, after holydays of course?

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[–] FuglyDuck 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what's the brand/model of the Mobo? that's a bit more important than bios stuff.

your mobo may not physically support those features

[–] ArbiterXero 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Often they’re in weird places in the bios…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

And cheap motherboards tend to have less features than nicer boards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If you update the BIOS, maybe, but it depends on the motherboard. I have an old laptop with BIOS, and to access some extra features found on other models, I would have to install a custom BIOS.