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Wake on Lan - A7N266-VM
I am trying to get wake on lan working on my A7N266-VM motherboard. It has a
built in NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter and I am running Windows 2000 professional with all the latest updates etc. Bios version is rev 1004. I considered updating the bios but none of the more recent versions seemed to have any changes other than processor updates so I assumed it was not necessary. I have enabled on option in the bios called "Power Up On PCI Card". The explanation in the bios says this will enable the PC to power up from network or PCI modems. I have also enabled the option "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby." in the "Power Management" tab of the Network Adapter Properties. When I shut the box down the network card is no longer powered up, so I put the PC into sleep mode and then send a "wake up" packet from my Linux box using ether-wake. No joy. I tried a PCI network card (SMC1211) but there is nowhere (that I could find) on the motherboard to plug in the WOL cable and it did not work either. In addition, and I don't know if this is related to my problems or not, but the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby." option in Win2k gets lost every time I reboot the PC. This happened with both of the network adaptors I tried. Any ideas would be appreciated. Chris |
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wrote: I am trying to get wake on lan working on my A7N266-VM motherboard. It has a built in NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter and I am running Windows 2000 professional with all the latest updates etc. Bios version is rev 1004. I considered updating the bios but none of the more recent versions seemed to have any changes other than processor updates so I assumed it was not necessary. I have enabled on option in the bios called "Power Up On PCI Card". The explanation in the bios says this will enable the PC to power up from network or PCI modems. I have also enabled the option "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby." in the "Power Management" tab of the Network Adapter Properties. When I shut the box down the network card is no longer powered up, so I put the PC into sleep mode and then send a "wake up" packet from my Linux box using ether-wake. No joy. I tried a PCI network card (SMC1211) but there is nowhere (that I could find) on the motherboard to plug in the WOL cable and it did not work either. In addition, and I don't know if this is related to my problems or not, but the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby." option in Win2k gets lost every time I reboot the PC. This happened with both of the network adaptors I tried. Any ideas would be appreciated. Chris Another poster recently noted that his computer would WOL if he shut down from just using the BIOS, but wouldn't work if Win2K did the shutdown for him. The implication was that Win2K wasn't setting up the hardware properly for a WOL to work. I don't have an answer for that, as it sounds like you at least found a dialog with a setting for that in the OS. You could try a Google search on the two terms "Win2K" and "PME". I'm not really up on the utilities, but I've seen Intel Landesk mentioned as a way to set it up, and the following utility was also mentioned - http://www.f-grubert.de/pwrswtch/index.htm Your other question about the WOL cable, I can help with. There are two ways to do WOL. The old way was with a cable that went from the card to the motherboard. One of the signals on the motherboard would be PME (power management event?) on that connector, and that is what the PCI card would tug on, when it detected a magic packet. The boys who wrote the PCI spec, decided it would be wonderful to include the PME signal on all PCI connectors. In the PCI version 2.2 spec, they put PME on the connector. Now, how the industry responded is not that useful to you. If a computer is PCI 2.2 compatible, then the three pin connector on the motherboard is removed, and the PME pin is only on the PCI connectors. If the computer is pre-PCI 2.2, then the motherboard will have the connector instead. What this means, is if you own a boxload of old Ethernet cards, and buy a new PCI 2.2 or later computer, then you'll need to re-buy that Ethernet function in order to get WOL working. Or something along those lines. You might find an Ethernet card sporting both methods (cable and PCI 2.2 compatible), but that would still only be on a new card, and would allow a new card to work with a new or an old computer. Of course, a built-in Ethernet function connects PME internally, so no problems with implementation issues like this. HTH, Paul |
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Thanks for the info, it explained a couple of things and helped me find the
answer to my problem. It turns out my motherboard does support wake on lan with the setting that I had enabled in the bios. Getting the settings right in win2k was the issue. I had searched google extensively to find an answer but with no joy. The issue that I had was that I did not check the option "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" setting in the power management tab of the network adaptor properties. Silly me, I thought that I would not want to do that since I want the network to be able to wake on lan, and therefore the network card should be on all of the time. Once I did that I was able to wake up the PC from my linux box when I put it in to standby, and when I made it hibernate. It also solved the problem that I mentioned in my initial post where I was losing the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby." setting. When I shut the computer down through windows it turns the network card off so that was not an option, but I am happy with hibernate, so problem solved. "Paul" wrote in message ... In article , "Chris" wrote: I am trying to get wake on lan working on my A7N266-VM motherboard. It has a built in NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter and I am running Windows 2000 professional with all the latest updates etc. Bios version is rev 1004. I considered updating the bios but none of the more recent versions seemed to have any changes other than processor updates so I assumed it was not necessary. I have enabled on option in the bios called "Power Up On PCI Card". The explanation in the bios says this will enable the PC to power up from network or PCI modems. I have also enabled the option "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby." in the "Power Management" tab of the Network Adapter Properties. When I shut the box down the network card is no longer powered up, so I put the PC into sleep mode and then send a "wake up" packet from my Linux box using ether-wake. No joy. I tried a PCI network card (SMC1211) but there is nowhere (that I could find) on the motherboard to plug in the WOL cable and it did not work either. In addition, and I don't know if this is related to my problems or not, but the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby." option in Win2k gets lost every time I reboot the PC. This happened with both of the network adaptors I tried. Any ideas would be appreciated. Chris Another poster recently noted that his computer would WOL if he shut down from just using the BIOS, but wouldn't work if Win2K did the shutdown for him. The implication was that Win2K wasn't setting up the hardware properly for a WOL to work. I don't have an answer for that, as it sounds like you at least found a dialog with a setting for that in the OS. You could try a Google search on the two terms "Win2K" and "PME". I'm not really up on the utilities, but I've seen Intel Landesk mentioned as a way to set it up, and the following utility was also mentioned - http://www.f-grubert.de/pwrswtch/index.htm Your other question about the WOL cable, I can help with. There are two ways to do WOL. The old way was with a cable that went from the card to the motherboard. One of the signals on the motherboard would be PME (power management event?) on that connector, and that is what the PCI card would tug on, when it detected a magic packet. The boys who wrote the PCI spec, decided it would be wonderful to include the PME signal on all PCI connectors. In the PCI version 2.2 spec, they put PME on the connector. Now, how the industry responded is not that useful to you. If a computer is PCI 2.2 compatible, then the three pin connector on the motherboard is removed, and the PME pin is only on the PCI connectors. If the computer is pre-PCI 2.2, then the motherboard will have the connector instead. What this means, is if you own a boxload of old Ethernet cards, and buy a new PCI 2.2 or later computer, then you'll need to re-buy that Ethernet function in order to get WOL working. Or something along those lines. You might find an Ethernet card sporting both methods (cable and PCI 2.2 compatible), but that would still only be on a new card, and would allow a new card to work with a new or an old computer. Of course, a built-in Ethernet function connects PME internally, so no problems with implementation issues like this. HTH, Paul |
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