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Originally Posted by MAXUM
Now as for your power, have you considered an IP based PDU? Basically it's a power strip you can control over wire, and power on any outlet remotely. Super handy to have. Unless you blow a breaker you'll always be able to bring your system up.
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That won't work for his case. The problem is that the PC requires a physical button push, it doesn't power on automatically after a power failure. The other problem is that after a power failure his cable modem reboots and he gets a new IP address. Without a device that can register to DynDNS for him, he wouldn't know what IP to access the PDU on, and even if he did, it wouldn't re-power his PC anyway.
The easiest solution for this case might be to setup a simple circuit that would click a relay upon powering up. Tie the relay into the power switch of the PC so that it gets the button push it needs after a power failure.