gControl Power-on (auto boot at power-on?)

[dmcgee]

First post here … looked around for someone else whos been down this road and came up short, so here goes … and I’m not sure this is in a good place for this so feel free to suggest a better one.

I’m in the process of commissioning the 4x4 Altmill and so far the assy. and initial movement is all good. Now I’m waiting on a spindle (theoretically here Sat).

Anyway, my question here is this: does anyone know how to set the bios on the gControl pc / tablet to boot when power is applied (no fiddling with the down facing button). I want to have the PC and gsender controller come on together via switched power strip.

In my experience there is typically a setting in bios that determines how the system is to proceed when power is initially applied. Generally the choices are [off|on|last state] or similar. In this case, I was unable to find anything that looked familiar but I eventually found the following (seemed a long shot and did not work)
: Access bios by repeatedly hitting del; Select -ADVANCED; Select-SUPER I/O CONFIGURATION ; Options here are- “Restore AC Power Loss By IO” - Options are Last State / On / Off .

I don’t know what “Super IO Configuration” is good for but thought it looked promising. At this point I’m stymied by the lack of information on the bios (American Megatrends (AMI) bios v.5.27 (on the one I have)) that would indicate if it’s even possible in this case.
Is there a technical resource for the guts / nitty gritty of the gcontrol bios?

Silver bullets are welcome, I’d settle for witty banter too.

Dan

[_Michael]

I don’t have a gControl and I’m not having an easy time finding a manual although I did find one for v3.x.x. However, I did run across an article that said some settings may be hidden.

Press the “Alt” and “F1” keys to unlock the hidden settings on the AMI BIOS. If nothing happens, try pressing “Shift” and “F1” or “Ctrl” and “F1” instead.

Worth a shot maybe?

[dmcgee]

Worth a try … let you know

thanks

[KGN]

Specifically, my understanding is that you want to change S5 to S0 in the bios in state after G3 to change the behaviour from “Stay off until button pressed” to “Power on as power is restored”

As far as I know we don’t have publicly available resources on this but a support ticket asking for Gilberto and he has in depth instructions ready to share for advanced users who want this.

[_Michael]

I was exited when I saw ‘K replying’!

I also forgot to welcome you to the group @dmcgee, so welcome, and congratulations on your ‘advanced user’ status!

[AkaMrBill]

I’m in the same boat with commissioning our Altmill and waiting for the Spindle. Has yours arrived yet? I haven’t received shipping notification from UPS, so I have to assume it hasn’t been sent out yet. Mid Dec. has come and gone and I know Sienci Labs will be shut down from the Dec. 24th - New Yeears. What are the chances it gets shipped before Christmas?