RTC or WOL which conditions

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What conditions should be fullfilled to use these features.
My MB supports both, but the RTC never wakes up the PC when it was shutdown.
(Not Standby).
I thaught I understood it correctly that the BIOS RTC clock continues and
generates a wake event to start all up again.
Is a powerdown acceptable here or should I remain in standby? Why?

WOL Wake-On-LAN= same questions...
 
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What conditions should be fullfilled to use these features.
My MB supports both, but the RTC never wakes up the PC when it was
shutdown.
(Not Standby).
I thaught I understood it correctly that the BIOS RTC clock
continues and
generates a wake event to start all up again.
Is a powerdown acceptable here or should I remain in standby? Why?

WOL Wake-On-LAN= same questions...
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RTC = Real-time Clock

It's a clock. Tick, tock, tick, tock. It keeps track of time. It
does nothing by itself to wake the host from a sleep mode. You need
to enable some wake-on event in the BIOS to get the host powered back
up, or add an event in Task Scheduler that brings the host out of
sleep mode. Your wristwatch tells time but YOU have to set an alarm
event in it. You might have a RTC *alarm* option in BIOS to wake the
host at a specific time but, just like with the wristwatch, YOU will
have to set it. You only mentioned the Wake-On-LAN event but don't
mention if any other host ever did try to connect to your host to get
it to wake up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface
 
What conditions should be fullfilled to use these features.
My MB supports both, but the RTC never wakes up the PC when it was shutdown.
(Not Standby).
I thaught I understood it correctly that the BIOS RTC clock continues and
generates a wake event to start all up again.
Is a powerdown acceptable here or should I remain in standby? Why?

WOL Wake-On-LAN= same questions...
Click to expand...

The clock keeps running but there must be bios setting set
for the time it would wake up. If it doesn't wake up from
full off (but AC power still live at the PSU) with this bios
setting set, it seems a bios flaw and you might seek a bios
update.

WOL generaly is set in the properties of the NIC driver to
wake from a magic packet set from other system or a link
state change (*ethernet* cable or upstream equipment
connected).
 
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