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Hello All.

Someone once told me that Its possible to boot a computer up using a mouse, instead of the power button on the computer, I think they told me that in order to do that, you have to go into either the BIOS or CMOS to accomplish this. Does anyone know howto do this?

Thanks Sheldon Scott.

 

[CapStar362]

you mean starting it from Stand-By or Hibernating? ive never heard of such a thing and google turns up nothing of that nature

 

[Pape]

depending on your bios feature. To be honest I did not see this feature in a long time, but if your bios support it it will be under the power setting tab

 

[OldDeadOne]

I don't even think that is possible at all,someone must be pulling your leg(AFIK in all the years I've played around with the various bios' I've never seen anything remotely mouse related and CMOS means nothing for that.)

 

[questnz]

As our friends above already advised you, NO CAN DO, you can "WAKE UP" up computer from stand by events eg keyboard, network packet or mouse movement but not "BOOT UP" very different thingo without going into technicalities of the operating systems, Master Boot Records, boot loaders etc. PC mouse is rather unintelligent and dumb piece of equipment.

 

[kb2vxa]

You don't have to go through a lot of technical stuff, just explain how a computer powers up. At power on it boots using the chip known as the boot interval operating system or BIOS and quickly goes into POST, the pre-operating self test you see scrolling up the screen, it makes sure all the hardware is there and working properly. If there's an error that's where you'll find it. Then it loads the software operating system including start up programs where the functions of the keyboard and mouse are located into RAM and you're ready to go.

Now that you know that keyboard and mouse functions are not located in the BIOS chip but rather in the OS you can see why they're impossible to use until RAM is loaded and the computer ready to operate.

 

[OldDeadOne]

I think just about all of us knows that,but thanks for explaining in case a newbie shows up

 

[CapStar362]

You don't have to go through a lot of technical stuff, just explain how a computer powers up. At power on it boots using the chip known as the boot interval operating system or BIOS and quickly goes into POST,

last i checked, long time ago and just recently, BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System. BIOS is the "traffic cop" of all the circuits in the machine per say. it tells everything where to be routed and how to talk. it also controls the system RTC and NVRAM Chip. if you have a machine with out a BIOS you have a hunk of junk metal/plastic/pcb!!

the POST ( Power On Self Test ) is a routine of the BIOS chip itself, and also a routine of all the hardware in a system. even the BIOS chip itself has a POST sequence of checks on itself.


BIOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The BIOS software is built into the PC, and is the first code run by a PC when powered on ('boot firmware'). The primary function of the BIOS is to load and start an operating system. When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is to initialize and identify system devices such as the video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk, CD/DVD drive and other hardware. The BIOS then locates software held on a peripheral device (designated as a 'boot device'), such as a hard disk or a CD, and loads and executes that software, giving it control of the PC.[2] This process is known as booting, or booting up, which is short for bootstrapping.

notice in bold letters here, it IDENTIFIES THE DEVICES!!


please do your research if you dont know about it, or dont post when you have no clue. jeez people




on a side note, the newest BIOS's have mouse user capability. allowing a mouse to be used within the BIOS Setup program. ive seen this on the newest of Dell's and HP's and retail systems.

 

[Pape]

first thing first, basic mouse and keyboard functionality are loaded in the bios, what get loaded in the os is the elevated functions. If your computer load is basic functions only in the OS good luck on configuring the bios and installing the OS.

Second thing, In today computer "ATX pwr supp" your computer is always ON until you flip the PWR supp switch in the back. When you push the power button in front of your case you close the circuit sending the start signal. In the same way you can start a ATX power supply by connecting pin 14 and 15 on the main connector. No more 110v "AT" switch in front of the case.

For many years my computer bios power management was set to start (cold boot) the computer at 6:55 Am all by it self.