Question about CUSL2. NIC and LED

[nnnyyy]

After shutting down windows, is the green LED on the motherboard supposed to stay lit or turn off? Also, I have a 3com 905c NIC in the last PCI slot, its hooked up to a Linksys router. After shutting down, the router tells me that the link is still active. Shouldnt the NIC be off when then computer is off?

 

[bRuiner]

I have the same thing happen. I believe its because I have one of those enermax power supplies that have an on/off switch in back. So even if i shut down, the nic seems to register to the router. If i flip the switch on the PS off, it will go off.


bRuiner

 

[Vegito]

Any LCD on after power down are for wake on lan in nics or wake on keyboard for keyboard and wake on mouse for mouse. They need some kind of power to receive the wake on lan signal..

 

[Tominator]

The green LED is on anytime there is power to the mb. This alerts you so you'll not try and plug in a card with power on. Less smoke that way.

You may have the 'Wake to Lan' option on in BIOS and so the NIC is active, even with power off.

 

[nnnyyy]

I have an enermax power supply and when I flip the switch, everything turns off. In bios all my wake on ring/lan/keyboard are all disabled. Any one else have this problem or a fix for it?

 

[jamesbond007]

Hahah! LOL! I have/used to have a similar problem. I had turned my machine off for ~5 minutes and all of a sudden it booted right back up! I turned off my WOL, etc, and it doesn't do it anymore. I believe it was my DSL modem, but I'm not sure. My modem sends out packets every 2-3 seconds to look for new computers to assign IPs to. Man, that scared me the first time! Yes, the green LED is always suppose to be on. I am using the Asus A7V and Asus A7V133 and they both function the same way. The NIC stays powered up for WOL functions. WOL is really never needed in my house because all of my machines are powered up 24/7.