G'day kiddies,

Well, I noticed in the new version of Logmein that it supports Wake-on-LAN (maybe it did in the old one as well). Anyway, all of a sudden I was able to remote Wake-on-LAN my Media PC and work computer, which is pretty damn awesome. So awesome that I want it for all computers.

My main PC at home has a ASUS Maximus Formula, which clearly supports Wake-on-LAN.

I've been into the BIOS and enabled every power option I can see and specifically the option 'Wake-on-LAN'. That had no effect.

I also went to device drivers in Vista and in each of the two network interfaces I enabled the 'Wake-on-LAN' feature in there as well. Still no action.

So yeah, I'm out of ideas. Please help, sirs and madams.

Pinky!

when the machine is off, does the network card have any lights on (ie when you're trying to WOL it?)

when the machine is off, does the network card have any lights on (ie when you're trying to WOL it?)

Ah, pro tip. I shall check. Thank you for useful suggestion.

is WOL supported for both those nics?

also.. are you sure you linked to the right board? the APM management mentions power on by pci and pcie from memory but there's no WOL in the bios?


*edit*

in the AINet2 config the lan cable check is turned off by default. maybe turn it on and see if that helps the 'power on by pci' function as you need it.


I dunno - maybe a newer bios has come out with WOL support. I'd still be plugging into the primary NIC though. it's the top one

last edited by koopz at 10:30:56 28/Sep/09

Hey thanks koopz. More pro tips.

In the BIOS there is definitely a WOL feature under the power sub-menu which I have enabled. I also enabled Wake-on-PCI and PCIe as well, just in case.

That AINet2 tip is good, I'll check that out fo sure.

There is an excellent little proggie that I use on Media Centers to help with all issues sleep related.

MCE Standby Tool
http://slicksolutions.eu/

Gives you easy options for waking PCs from sleep scenarios, it does all the reg fixes for you. Its a lite install.