PC Botting up on timer?

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PC Botting up on timer?

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Anyone have any idea how I could get my PC to boot up at a specified time?

Had a web browse and cant find much other than some mobo's can be set in BIOS - but mine isnt one of them it seems :(
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Post by Dervish »

Your router may be able to send a Wake on LAN (WOL) signal to your PC.
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Post by Talifer »

Buy one of those timer plugs, a lot of PC will boot as they get power :) Just make sure it isn't set to go off mid way though using it :)

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Post by Evzy »

Talifer wrote:Buy one of those timer plugs, a lot of PC will boot as they get power :) Just make sure it isn't set to go off mid way though using it :)

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I thought of that - but how do I get around no-one being there to push the actual boot up button on the PC?
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Post by Talifer »

Some machine will just boot when they get power. My machine does, easy to test power it down switch it off at the wall, then switch it on at the wall and see if it boots.

This can be annoying when you are just fiddling with the internals, power off... fiddle... plug power back in race to keyboard before it gets past post... damn!

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Post by Evzy »

Mine doesnt do that - always kill the wall switch when its not in use and turn it back on, then the pc needs booting from the actual switch on it :(
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Post by Ghengis »

is there a setting in bios to bypass the power switch?
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Post by Evzy »

Ghengis wrote:is there a setting in bios to bypass the power switch?
Hmmm not sure, BIOS scares me tbh... Any idea where it would be in there? If not don't worry I will have a browse, but if someone knows it would make my trawling a lot safer for my PC's life!
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Post by Dervish »

The option will likely detail what you want the PC to do when it returns from a power outage (ie the switch at the wall plug is turned on or power comes back after a power cut). Usually the options are something like:
  1. Power On
  2. Stay Off
  3. Resume last state
Clearly from that last you would want "power on".
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The topic of the thread can be intepreted in several different ways...
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Post by Lorthania »

Try googling for 'schedule resume from hibernate' or 'schedule resume from stand-by' to find applications that do this for you.

It's not entirely what you want, since your PC won't be really 'off', but it's as close as you can get if your BIOS doesn't support booting from a powered down state.
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Post by Evzy »

Will have a look a tonight when I get home, cheers for teh advice :)

And yeah I know - meant to type booting in the title, twas only a couple of days later I noticed my typo :(
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