Turning Lattepanda on without using power button

I was having some problems with the Lattepanda software, I had to reinstall Windows, when I was doing it I found in the bios that you can enable a function that turn the lattepanda on when power is provided.

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ralphjy over 1 year ago +1

I ended up doing that too. Once the enclosure is buttoned up, it's pretty painful to get to the power button . I've seen that some people add a remote power button, but I don't really have a need for…
charlieo21 over 1 year ago in reply to JWx +1

Basically I was trying to clean some space in the limited eMMC and ended with a system that doesn't work anymore. I tried to reinstall using the image from their site but doesn't work because everything…

charlieo21 over 1 year ago in reply to JWx

It must be stored in some place that it's read only
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charlieo21 over 1 year ago in reply to dougw

In my case the recovery process wasn't working either
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ralphjy over 1 year ago in reply to charlieo21

Good to know in case I need to re-install. I imagine that we are all running headless (those of us that have the lattePanda inside the enclosure), but I am careful to always shutdown Windows before turning off power. I do that as a matter of course with any OS, but I imagine there will always be potential issues with power failure...
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JWx over 1 year ago in reply to charlieo21

maybe you were bitten by the same problem as I have experienced - manual says: insert usb disk, cycle power and it will reinstall.

It assumes BIOS boot order of: "USB drive then internal disk", but in my case it was "internal disk then USB drive". Had to change boot order and reinstall gone as stated in the manual...
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charlieo21 over 1 year ago in reply to JWx

That's right, I had to change the boot order
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