RE: Defender power supply requirements

> > to come up slower during boot up, I believe this had to do
> > with the memory backup, of course I be wrong;)
> IIRC, you are correct. The +5 needs to come up/on *after* the other
> voltages are stable (mainly the +12). This prevents the CMOS from being
> written to before the system gets into a sane state.

Could I just use the RST_PSPWRGD signal coming off the ATX power supply
and tie it to the CPU reset? It won't go high until both 5 and 12 volt
rails are good. At least that's how it's used in computer motherboards.

-->Neil

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Received on Wed Feb 19 17:52:29 2003