Wake on Lan settings help.

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DarkManX4lf

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I have two computers on a network, one which I use alot and the other rarely gets used.
Both are running Vista 64bit.

First I want to confirm that if its possible to turn on a computer through wake on lan. If the second computer is completely turned off is it possible to boot it up by WOL?

Second the computer that doesnt get used much has a PCI NIC card. It has a Realtek RTL 8139 chip I think and it has these settings but I'm not sure what to set them to. I have my bios set to "wake this comptuer by PCI device enabled". I tried to use AMD's magic packet to try to turn on my computer through the lan but it does not work.

Can anyone help me out?
 
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There is No setting. You just have to make sure that the card supports WOL.

Some old card has a header that need to be connected to an Header on the Mobo, others can do it directly through the PCI.

It is all in hatrdware it has nothing to do with the OS since the computer is Off while waiing to WOL Magic Packet.

So if you are not sure you have to look at the Hardware manuals.
 
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WOL is just a mean to switch On a computer through the Network or the Internet.

Once the computer is On all the regular security considerations apply as it with any live computer that is on a Network/Interent.

 
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Originally posted by: DarkManX4lf
I have two computers on a network, one which I use alot and the other rarely gets used.
Both are running Vista 64bit.

First I want to confirm that if its possible to turn on a computer through wake on lan. If the second computer is completely turned off is it possible to boot it up by WOL?

Second the computer that doesnt get used much has a PCI NIC card. It has a Realtek RTL 8139 chip I think and it has these settings but I'm not sure what to set them to. I have my bios set to "wake this comptuer by PCI device enabled". I tried to use AMD's magic packet to try to turn on my computer through the lan but it does not work.

Can anyone help me out?
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Well, that screenshot shows that the setting would be a double-negative: Turn off WOL? No.

Might be worth a try to switch it to Yes if it doesn't work as it is. But I can confirm what JackMDS has said. There's no "special" setting. Set it in the MB bios and enable it on the NIC and it works with no problems.

One strange thing I noticed in some of the free routines that send Magic Packets is that you have to try different information to indicate the remote computer:
1. IP address
2. computer's name
3. physical address (MAC)

 
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