Wake on "wireless" keyboard feature - P4P800 or Any mobo

[Hellothere4324]

Has anyone used the ASUS P4P800 wake up on KB with a wireless KB? I'm in the process of putting together a Home Theater PC for a friend and would like to indulge his "couch potato" tendency by making this puppy totally "hands off". I'm thinking of using a Gyration (gyroscopic mouse and wireless KB), but I've heard that no one can get this to wake up a mobo (www.avsforum.com - HTPC section). I'm talking about a cold state to active, not a S3, etc state. Anybody here have any luck or experience here? I'm open to any mobo that can do this in the P4 class (can be AMD equivalent).

Thanks!

 

[bargainshopper]

Originally posted by: Hellothere4324
Has anyone used the ASUS P4P800 wake up on KB with a wireless KB? I'm in the process of putting together a Home Theater PC for a friend and would like to indulge his "couch potato" tendency by making this puppy totally "hands off". I'm thinking of using a Gyration (gyroscopic mouse and wireless KB), but I've heard that no one can get this to wake up a mobo (www.avsforum.com - HTPC section). I'm talking about a cold state to active, not a S3, etc state. Anybody here have any luck or experience here? I'm open to any mobo that can do this in the P4 class (can be AMD equivalent).

Thanks!

I have an Abit AI7 and Logitech wireless keyboard and kbd is setup to power up the PC when I hit any key. As long as the mobo supplies power to the PS2 connector, you should be fine. I can't get it to work if the kbd is connected to USB port eventhough power is supplied to it.

 

[Peter]

The computer doesn't see the difference between a wired and a wireless keyboard. So if your mainboard can, in general, wake up from a legacy PS2 or USB keyboard, then it will equally happily do so when the keyboard is wireless.