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From: Roland Schweiger on 1 Aug 2010 16:41
i have the ASUS P6T Deluxe v2 mainboard.
It has 2 on-board network controllers.

I need the WOL feature to remotely start my machine,, then work on it,
and then shut it down again.

My ADSL modem router (FritzBox 7270) can do this.

But :

the Wake On Lan only seems to work when the computer is in sleep mode.

If it is "turned off" (S5 state, soft power-off) then the WOL command with
the magic packet will not turn the computer on.

I tried this on both built-in network controllers, both of them will only
wake from stand-by, not from soft power off.

Is there a way to overcome this? Most of my many years old computers were
able to wake up from powered off,
i don't believe that ASUS does not do this.

The most new BIOS is flashed on the board.

OS is Win7 ultimate x64.

greetings

Roland Schweiger


From: Roland Schweiger on 2 Aug 2010 06:35
Partially, i found a solution to my problem.

1.
in the BIOS ---> Power, i had to set a wake event for PCI(E) devices (not
PCI) as aparantly the onboard NICs are PCIE.

2.
On the setting tabs of both the NICs (Marvell Yukon 88E8056) under --->
Advanced,
there is a setting called "wake up from turned off state" (in my German
version of Windows7 it says "wake up aus ausgeschaltetem Zustand"),
evidently i set it to "on".

3.
Still in advanced tab of the NIC, "wake up function" set to "pattern match"
AND "magic packet".
Although i don't know what the "pattern match" actually means, as i do not
know where to set a pattern for the match.
Instead, the "magic packed" can be sent by my router (it consists of
something like 16x the MAC address of the NIC).

4.
Still on the config tab of the NIC, under "energy saving" "allow computer to
wake this device" and here "only allow magic packet to wake t he computer"
else my machine wakes up immediately after going to sleep.

Now finalley, when i power-off my machine (S5 state), i can wake it up from
my router.

One drawback:
If t here is a complete power loss (i tested this by switching off the hard
switch on my power supply, waiting a minute and switching it back on),
then the WOL will no longer work.

Dow anyone know how to overcome this?

I have a workaround for this by setting "turn on after power loss" in the
BIOS,
but this is a non satisfying workaround.

greetings from Vienna :-)
and good luck to all with similar problems.

Roland Schweiger


From: Oldish Git on 2 Aug 2010 16:18

"Roland Schweiger" <roland_schweiger(a)web.de> wrote in message
news:i3672a$j9i$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> Partially, i found a solution to my problem.
>
> 1.
> in the BIOS ---> Power, i had to set a wake event for PCI(E) devices (not
> PCI) as aparantly the onboard NICs are PCIE.
>
> 2.
> On the setting tabs of both the NICs (Marvell Yukon 88E8056) under --->
> Advanced,
> there is a setting called "wake up from turned off state" (in my German
> version of Windows7 it says "wake up aus ausgeschaltetem Zustand"),
> evidently i set it to "on".
>
> 3.
> Still in advanced tab of the NIC, "wake up function" set to "pattern
> match" AND "magic packet".
> Although i don't know what the "pattern match" actually means, as i do not
> know where to set a pattern for the match.
> Instead, the "magic packed" can be sent by my router (it consists of
> something like 16x the MAC address of the NIC).
>
> 4.
> Still on the config tab of the NIC, under "energy saving" "allow computer
> to wake this device" and here "only allow magic packet to wake t he
> computer"
> else my machine wakes up immediately after going to sleep.
>
> Now finalley, when i power-off my machine (S5 state), i can wake it up
> from my router.
>
> One drawback:
> If t here is a complete power loss (i tested this by switching off the
> hard switch on my power supply, waiting a minute and switching it back
> on),
> then the WOL will no longer work.
>
> Dow anyone know how to overcome this?
>
> I have a workaround for this by setting "turn on after power loss" in the
> BIOS,
> but this is a non satisfying workaround.

I remotely power-up my P6T Deluxe V2 using WOL in the same way
and can confirm that it doesn't work after complete power-loss.
It seems that 5VSB needs to be supplied continuously for WOL to
work, so if the mains power to your machine cannot be maintained
indefinitely, then one solution may be a UPS, which should allow
a mains outage to last for a very long time as the power needed by
5VSB is very small.
HTH,
--
Rob



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