Please help me find a mobo with Wake-on-LAN for i5 2500k

[DesiPower]

My current P8Z68-V LE does not have WoL, does anybody have a SB mobo with wol? can anyone help me find a good one please? I could not find that filter/facet on any website...

Oh and 2 x PCIe 1x slot would be a nice to have. Also, I have a super cheap ECS H61 mobo running a celeron, its much slower then my main PC, even with SSD, it feels sluggish, not sure if its the mobo or chipset or the CPU or what, but I would like to keep the performance as is if not better with this new mobo.

 

[postmortemIA]

i would try ones with intel LAN adapter. Mine has it, but it is intel's own, I wouldn't recommend it, intel is out of mobo business

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Pretty much any motherboard is going to have WoL. I mean, I've never seen one that didn't.

It might be disabled - check the BIOS.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wake_on_lan.html

That utility will send WoL packets to the IP if your choice for testing.

 

[DesiPower]

I checked the BIOS, under APM it has several other wake option like from from PS2 keyboard etc but no wol. I also searched and found some other people complaining about it. Will try your link above, what exactly is it? I can run it on the my current PC to test?

 

[DesiPower]

Pretty much any motherboard is going to have WoL. I mean, I've never seen one that didn't.

It might be disabled - check the BIOS.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wake_on_lan.html

That utility will send WoL packets to the IP if your choice for testing.

OK, so using the linked utility, I was able to wake it up from sleep, but not while turned off. While off, the utility does recognize it, shows that its powered off, it let you send the wake up signal too, but the PC does not wake up.
So that's what WoL should let you do right? If the option if present in the BIOS then it should let you wake up the PC even when its turned off, right?

 

[Dahak]

Well there is two things,
1 it has to be enabled in the bios
2 in device manager you have to make sure it is enabled as well, for example my nic on my laptop, i would have to make sure that wake on magic packet its checked

 

[DesiPower]

My onboard Realtech does not show so may option, this is all I see, its already enabled.

Many BIOSes have specific option on Power on by LAN, as you can see below mine doesn't. HOWEVER, I do see Power on by PCI, maybe I can try installing NIC on PCI and give that a shot, I think I have a spare one somewhere... have do dig into my stash..

 

[DesiPower]

So I bought a PCI Network card that supports WoL, installed it, then I enabled the "Power on by PCI" in the Bios as shown in the above pic and it works!!!

So now if my main Desktop which is also Plex server is shut down, and I am in another room or floor and I want to watch something on Plex, I don't have to physically go and turn it on anymore, yay!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

As I recall, sometimes -- "WOL" is called something else in BIOS. I can't recall exactly, and I'm not going to reboot my machine to refresh my memory.

I'm jus' sayin' . . . .that's all.

We went through an exercise a couple years ago to make all the (five) machines in the house go to sleep, wake-up for server-backup and then sleep again. And that's where my recollection derives.