Windows 7 power on after power loss

I have tried to recover from a backup created with Acronis. I have unplugged everything from the computer, removed the battery and held the power button for 1 minute. I am looking for more suggestions on this. I want to rule out all possibilities before even considering replacement. Seems like you may have nuked the NUC, sorry couldn't help it.

Just purchased this computer a week ago One last thing to try, are you able to boot a live Linux distro from USB? Create a USB boot device with pen drive Linux using Linux Mint or Ubuntu or any other distro with run live option, there's quite a few. That'll prove all other components except the HD is in good shape. That case, you'll just be looking at a HD replacement.

Swapped the SSD with a knows good unit, same symptom but the SSD from the good unit worked in the unit that the bad one came out of. Just need to get a new SSD. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Laplink Software, Inc. Neil Laplink. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Best Answer. Have you taken the harddrive out and run chkdsk with it on another computer? Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.

Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Automatic power on after power loss. Is it possible to setup my PowerEdge to automatic power on after a power loss, usually this is done by a BIOS setting but in this case this setting is missing. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies This has to do with the UPS, not the system. Look to your UPS' settings to power a unit down on a power loss. Please clarify your scenario.

Assuming you do not have a UPS, are you saying that after a power loss, the server does not come back on after the power is restored? Please make sure that your server has the latest BIOS. Thank you for answer, I have an UPS, sometime the power is down for couple of hours and the server its shutting down. When the power returns the UPS goes power on but the server remains off.

How can I setup the server to automatic power on when the power returns? If you have no setting in bios, and can not do it through the BBU you should be able to A number times I needed a hard power reset on servers and devices after my RDP failed due to a server or firewall freeze. Dev Mgr 7 Gold.

In the bios there's often often as in general systems an option to go back to the last powerstate, but if you have your system set up with connectivity to your UPS so that the system does a graceful shutdown when the UPS starts running low, this bios option wouldn't serve a purpose, as the bios cannot distinguish between a user initiated shutdown or a software UPS management software initiated shutdown; it just sees it was a shutdown and not a loss of power.

You may need to look into some kind of WoL setup where you have an 'unprotected' system that will power itself up when power is restored and then has as part of it's bootup script runs several WoL requests to power up certain servers. Member since CityWonk 2 Bronze.