Booting a PC over a network

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Alex Devlin

What I want to do is to be able to turn on my PC upstairs from the one
downstairs. The one downstairs is connected through a wireless network card
to the router upstairs. The upstairs PC is wired into the router. I've
checked on the web and have set my BIOS to wake over LAN and tried using a
program called "Magic Packet" by AMD but I still can't get it to turn on.

Is this even possible or does the WOL only bring the PC out of standby?
 
Alex said:
What I want to do is to be able to turn on my PC upstairs from the one
downstairs. The one downstairs is connected through a wireless network card
to the router upstairs. The upstairs PC is wired into the router. I've
checked on the web and have set my BIOS to wake over LAN and tried using a
program called "Magic Packet" by AMD but I still can't get it to turn on.

Is this even possible or does the WOL only bring the PC out of standby?
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Hardware requirements:
Both mother board and NIC must support WOL. If you have a built in NIC
with WOL support, it's almost done! But many PCI NICs come with a
connector and a wire, which has to be connected to the mother boards WOL
connector. After these, your power supply and OS must support WOL. And
at last you should enable Wake-On-LAN in your systems BIOS (or whatever
called).That's it.


http://www.jibble.org/wake-on-lan/
http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3315501
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WOL.asp
http://popular.softlandmark.com/Wake_On_Lan.html
 
Hardware requirements:
Both mother board and NIC must support WOL. If you have a built in NIC
with WOL support, it's almost done! But many PCI NICs come with a
connector and a wire, which has to be connected to the mother boards
WOL connector. After these, your power supply and OS must support WOL.
And at last you should enable Wake-On-LAN in your systems BIOS (or
whatever called).That's it.


http://www.jibble.org/wake-on-lan/
http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3315501
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WOL.asp
http://popular.softlandmark.com/Wake_On_Lan.html
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Thanks Demmpa, I had it set up right all along but the programe "Magic
Packet" wasn't working for some reason. Downloaded a command line program
and everything is working ok now.

Thanks for your help. :-)
 
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