Server downtime == me lame

I was poking at my server a week and a half ago and wasn’t happy with the state of something so I decided to power it off (at the PDU…I mean why have it consuming power and only logically off?) rather than leave it in an in between state while I ate dinner. Turns out it didn’t power back on automatically when power is restored, presumably due to bios (mis)configuration. Oops!
Finally had a fellow coop member in California able to press the power button for me today. Strangely it wouldn’t go into the BIOS for them and rather than mess with trying to diagnose that (it’s been like this for two years and wasn’t an issue) I’ve just left things as they are for now. At some point this machine’s hardware is going to die and it’ll get sorted out on the new hardware (or virtual machine).
I never did get that bios “feature”.