I bought several M789 motherboards for my company to make Linux-based routers. The boards seemed very well suitable for such needs and we previously used similar boards (787cl+ and others, not from PC Chips).
The HUGE problem is that the board does not support Power Loss Restart function. That means that if power goes out, then our routers stop working and never resume, even if the power returns. Our routers are ususally installed in places that are hardly reachable and it takes several hours to bring them back up after the power outage. Power outages are often that long that UPS can't handle it. Nobody cares of it, because the outage usually covers the whole building or district. However when the power returns to the building, people want their Internet back. But the router is down due to no "power loss restart". :(
Previously with 787cl+ motherboard it helped to short-circuit the 14th and the 15th pins of the ATX connector so the PSU stayed on. With M789CLU such a trick does not work. The PSU stays on, but the MB doesn't boot.
Does anybody know how can I make the board to be always on? Is there any port register that I should write to? Or is it a CMOS bit?
The board is built around VIA CLE266/VIA8235 chipset.
Thanks in advance for any hints. Alexander Amelkin, MSCS Head of hardware design dept. TRC FIORD, JSC