Re: Powering up a PC ATX machine remotely

[Shaf Ali <shaf@xxxxxxxx>]

As I said I have this working with 3 machines now my only concern now
is
that whether it is safe to be running them all off a single AM12U.

You might have a hardware problem if it's not working for you :

S5 works great however I noticed 1 machine not playing ball yesterday :
Turns out that it was an issue with the graphics card.... Maybe it drew
current away from the mobo and hence the motherboard could not identify
a change in power state.

I replaced the card with an old PCI one (Its supposed to be a server
afterall so why need fancy graphics ?)

Please feel free to check you machine configuration - hope you get it
fixed.



Andy Davies wrote:
> On 16/10/06, Shaf Ali <shaf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thanks all for the responses but we found a much neater solution
than
>> using WOL by using an appliance module (AM12U) and restore power
on when
>> power is interrupted from the BIOS.
>>
>> Remember WOL is fully powered on ie PSU is on / Memory and
motherboard
>> are active.
>>
>
>
> Not true for all motherboards, I've got a motherboard that's supposed
to
> come wake when it's in S5 (normal power off I think)
>
> For you average ATX PC, unless it's turned off at the wall, there's
some
> power to the motherboard via the PSU for the soft switch on that ATX
uses.
>
> Andy
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