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From: travis@halfdome.UUCP (Ward C. Travis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: IAQ: Power-up Preferences
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Date: 1 Jun 91 18:25:22 GMT
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Ok, perhaps I was confused. Remember, I was the one who thought
that his system stopped displaying the "Power/Startup Device" button
after securing the workstation. Now I am told that this behavior is
based on the system board configuration; that many NeXTstations  
shipped before early April simply cannot reboot themselves after  
power failures. So I must have been confused, my system must have  
never displayed the button in the first place. Mine arrived March 2nd  
or so.

Two questions:

  Will NeXT consider swapping up to give me this feature? I can
  make enough use of it, what with noisy power here in Pittsburgh,
  to make it worth pursuing. The power goes out here at least once 

  every fortnight due to summer storms. I thought that if existing 

  boards need only be rejumpered/FCO'd to make this work, perhaps I 

  could get a boardswap or have service do the FCO.

  How can I determine the board revision? I expect the answer is,
  open the box and read it off the PCB. How does opening the box
  affect my warranty? (OK, 2.5 questions, I admit it)

Thanks,
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