Strange issues

[number58]

Whenever I turn my laptop on, or wake it up from sleep, my desktop comes out of sleep as well. At first I thought it might have been caused by crashplan, my backup program. I have it setup to backup files from my laptop to my desktop. So I uninstalled crashplan, but it still happens. At this point, I've got no idea why this is happening. Has anyone had similar issues, or any clue what is going on?

 

[discerning]

Do you have wake on lan enabled on your desktop?

 

[number58]

I'm not certain. Is that a setting in the bios? I recently got a new motherboard. The two systems aren't on the same network though.

 

[number58]

I've got the asus p8z68-v le and I can't find any wake on lan options in the bios.

 

[corkyg]

Make sure you chek both BIOS levels - easy and advanced. It is UEFI BIOS. There is also Wake on Ring WOR as well as WOL.

You can confirm this by disconnecting the laptop from your LAN and then let it sleep and wake and see what happens.

In order for that backup to work, they have to be linked wired or wireless.

 

[discerning]

I'm not certain. Is that a setting in the bios? I recently got a new motherboard. The two systems aren't on the same network though.

WOL can work over the internet.

 

[number58]

Make sure you chek both BIOS levels - easy and advanced. It is UEFI BIOS. There is also Wake on Ring WOR as well as WOL.

You can confirm this by disconnecting the laptop from your LAN and then let it sleep and wake and see what happens.

In order for that backup to work, they have to be linked wired or wireless.

So WOR is the same as WOL?

I fixed the issue by changing a setting in Windows. Under the properties of the local area connection, I enabled "wake only with magic packet". Whatever that means.

 

[corkyg]

OK - you have a proprietary fix that works. Smile! WOR is not the same as WOL - but the end result is the same - an awakened system.