It would in part depend on how current the BIOS is, but many mobos allow you to set whether it will power up after a power failure.  Go into your setup and look for power management, last state, wake on LAN, etc. You should be able to change the setting for powering up after a power failure.

>I have 2 computers and both use Gigabyte ATX motherboards and are very
>similar but several revisions apart.  I noticed that 1 motherboard will
>powerup as soon as I turn the "Hardware Switch" on.  The other
>motherboard just sits there and waits for me to push the "Soft Powerup"
>switch.  I prefer the motherboard to start up on it's own after a power
>outage and I was wondering if this is an option that I can control or is
>it just the difference between revisions of the motherboards that I
>installed?
>

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