Advice for lost power on BI PC
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Yes, you want a UPS. Not only for power outages but for those times the power flickers or surges. I just recently lost my BI server due to a flicker. Fried the motherboard.
Also, if you use a UPS and set it up correctly you can have the UPS send a signal to the PC to shutdown correctly when battery power runs low. That helps against file corruption.
Also, if you use a UPS and set it up correctly you can have the UPS send a signal to the PC to shutdown correctly when battery power runs low. That helps against file corruption.
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Note this feature is not foolproof. Sometimes it will fail to start a PC back up, but usually it works.
aaronwt
Getting the hang of it
Then also run BI as a service. So once the PC boots and WIndows loads, BI will be running.
mrvelous01
Getting the hang of it
I run BI on a headless Windows 8 server parked in my basement. I use TightVNC to connect to the server when I want to mess with the BI GUI since Windows 8 screwed me out of Remote Desktop Server. I have decent firewall and AV software installed. I also have a UPS. I wanted BI to restart at boot unimpeded by UAC, and I didn't want to run it as a service, so I just disabled Windows 8 UAC. Are there any recommended ways to automagically start BI at Windows reboot?
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Yes, follow these directions works perfectly on 7 and 8..(i believe 10 as well)
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11949-elevated-program-shortcut-without-uac-prompt-create.html?ltr=E
I also have my BI server plugged into one of these zwave plugin power controllers, so that I can hard power cycle the PC from my VeraLite home automation system: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007UZH7B8
Combined with the BIOS setting to restart after power loss, I've so far been able to remotely get my BI server back up after any sort of power or system problem.
Combined with the BIOS setting to restart after power loss, I've so far been able to remotely get my BI server back up after any sort of power or system problem.
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aaronwt
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Yes that should work. I used those instructions to bypass UAC in Windows 10 so I could run the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility at startup.
But for BI, I never ran it as a service until Windows 10. Because my BI machine uses Windows 10 Home. So I didn't want it booting automatically and not have BI4 running. Now I only wish I had run BI4 as a service earlier. All I had to do was check the option in the settings and it was done.
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If you reboot the pc when running as a service, I believe you cannot set it to reboot in full screen mode (i may be wrong, but im too lazy to test)...
aaronwt
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No idea. Now that it's running as a service. I rarely even access BI4 from the PC running it. I do it through my tablets, cell phone, laptops, or desktop PCs. But if I do access it from the PC it's to make some changes or check something.
EDIT: I just checked my BI4 machine running it as a service. I had not opened BI4 locally since it was last rebooted. BI4 opened in full screen.
Both of my systems are set up now for that, I never new that option existed in the bios. thanks
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No problem.