Originally Posted by
Skele Drew
*sigh*. The saga of my WOL troubles continue. I have reconfigured my system based on instructions in various forums, guides, etc, but I have yet to get the results they have achieved. My problem has been distilled down to the NIC; or why the OS powers it down on standby/hibernate but not on shutdown. Maybe this problem is specific to only some NICs, like the on board Nvidia nForce, since my on board 3com doesn't theoretically have this issue.
I am having the same problem in Windows 8.
Hibernate S4 works, but shutdown S5 does not.
The NIC is set to WOL in S3, S4 and S5 in the BIOS and Windows (All settings in Bios and Windows need to be set for it to work in S5. I will post later). However I suspect windows 8 or nic driver is not doing what it is supposed in S5. It works up to 5 seconds after a shutdown when NIC still has residual power, but after Hibernation, even the next day, a WOL Magic Packet will start up the PC from S4.
Let's act on what we agree on now, and argue later on what we don't.
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