On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:19:14 GMT, Dan Stromberg
<strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu> wrote:

>
>Is there some sort of common or uncommon BIOS feature that will allow you
>to totally reset a computer remotely, even after it's crashed?
>
>Maybe there's some sort of ISA/PCI/PCI-X card you can get, or a special
>kind of powerstrip, or... some sort of standard BIOS feature, or maybe
>one of the free BIOS implementations can do this?
>
>I'm thinking along the lines of maybe something that has a top-priority
>NMI, so even if some other IRQ/NMI gets wedged, you might be able to yank
>on the reset pin anyway. Or something like that. You tell me. :)
>Please. Or even something with its own ultra-low-power, ultra-slow
>additional CPU that runs all the time and just watches for a magic network
>packet (authenticated somehow I assume, although the machines I want this
>for are on an unrouted net anyway), and upon seeing it Reboots.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Thanks!

Do a google for "pc watchdog" - there's a whole class of card that
plugs into the hardware and basically watches to see if the system
crashes, and reboots if it does. Linux kernel has support for these
already. I like the ones from pciwatchdog.com

Mike-

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