Has anyone got A7V8X and Wake On Lan to work?

[DynamO99]

I used to be able to wake up all my systems from anywhere on my network using Wake on Lan. I got the Asus A7V8X with the 10/100 built in Broadcom ethernet with the Boot Rom. I have been trying to get this machine to wake up from shutdown mode from the network (WOL). I have the bios set properly and the nic's wake up capability set to Magic Frame as per the manual, but I am unable to get it to boot from shutdown mode. There is NO provision on the board for a WOL cable, if I wanted to use another nic.. (Kind of a step backwards here I think). The instructions on how to use WOL is basically non-existant for this board. Has anyone been able to get this to work, or is it even possible with this board?????.

 

[DynamO99]

Well, I figured it out, so this is just some info..
Using the onboard Broadcom nic, WOL will not work. Sticking another NIC in a PCI slot does however, without even connecting the wol cable (there's no place to connect it anyway). Enable the Power up on PCI Card in the Bios, and that's all that's needed.. works great.. Also, the Magic Packet utility from the AMD site is neat.. you can wake one, a group, or you and even set a timer to have one or a group wake up.. neat. check it out at http://www.amd.com/us-en/Connectivi...mation/0,,50_2330_6629_3276^2452^2456,00.html