VirtualLarry
No Lifer
I just cracked open the packaging on a SuperFlower 550W non-modular 4-fan PSU. It includes a manual (yes, a PSU with a manual, imagine that).
Among the features, it lists this:
"disc scanning protection (PS-off time >2mS) to prevent the system from performing automatic disc scanning in case of abnormal system off"
I can understand why they implemented this feature. For several years, W2K and XP gold had the problem of telling the BIOS to do an ATX shut-off, just after writing data to the HD buffers, but not giving sufficient time for the HDs to commit their buffers to the platter. This results in the infamous "C\WINDOWS\SYSTEMced is corrupt" messages.
Do all modern ATX PSUs have this feature? Or is it just something quirky and specific to SuperFlower?
I'm also curious how this interacts with automatic shutoff in case of a short or overheat. In those cases, I don't see the reason to delay shutdown, in an emergency.
Among the features, it lists this:
"disc scanning protection (PS-off time >2mS) to prevent the system from performing automatic disc scanning in case of abnormal system off"
I can understand why they implemented this feature. For several years, W2K and XP gold had the problem of telling the BIOS to do an ATX shut-off, just after writing data to the HD buffers, but not giving sufficient time for the HDs to commit their buffers to the platter. This results in the infamous "C\WINDOWS\SYSTEMced is corrupt" messages.
Do all modern ATX PSUs have this feature? Or is it just something quirky and specific to SuperFlower?
I'm also curious how this interacts with automatic shutoff in case of a short or overheat. In those cases, I don't see the reason to delay shutdown, in an emergency.
