HP ENVY Desktop TE01-1154 Auto power on after outage

[dshehane]

I have discovered that hp has made advanced bios options not available and I need to somehow get my computer to auto reboot after power failure.   This computer is a server for my weather station and I live in a very unstable power environment.  Even with a UPS the computer will not auto restart when power is restored.  Is there any work around short of replacing the bios?

[itsmyname]

Are you saying that your UPS runs out of power before the power outage is resolved?

How many minutes does your UPS provide? Maybe, a "beefier" UPS, to add more minutes?

Is your computer connected to the Internet, via a cable-modem? Is that cable-modem powered through your UPS?

Check the sockets in the UPS -- only some of them provide battery-backup power.  

So, connect the desktop computer itself, and your weather-monitoring hardware, to those sockets.

Connect the monitor & printer & speakers to the "non-protected" sockets.

Does your desktop computer have a low-wattage SSD drive, or is it using a "spinning" disk-drive, that consumes more wattage per minute?

Have you considered replacing the desktop with a notebook computer, that has its own battery? Such a battery would provide power for a few hours -- acting as its own "UPS" type of protection.  Also, configure the notebook to "power-save" the screen after a few minutes -- to reduce power-usage when nobody is watching the screen.  Maybe, even a "netbook" will have enough processing-power and USB sockets to run your weather-station?

Or, as a last resort, buy a different computer where you CAN set the BIOS to "automatically power-on".

[dshehane]

The issue is solely how to enable auto restart after power outage.   I live in an area subject to frequent outages and already have multiple ups systems for network.  No ups will last through these outages, all I really need is a gracefull shutdown and an auto restart.  My biggest mistake was buying a hp computer which had the advance bios choices removed.  My essential question is can I save this expensive mistake or do I need to swap the bios chip or does anyone have a workaround for the auto restart issue?