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PC Botting up on timer?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:17 pm
by Evzy
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
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:55 pm
by Dervish
Your router may be able to send a Wake on LAN (WOL) signal to your PC.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:48 am
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
Talifer
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:20 pm
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
Talifer
I thought of that - but how do I get around no-one being there to push the actual boot up button on the PC?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:59 pm
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!
Talifer
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:37 pm
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
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:59 am
by Ghengis
is there a setting in bios to bypass the power switch?
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:34 pm
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!
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:23 pm
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:
- Power On
- Stay Off
- Resume last state
Clearly from that last you would want "power on".
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:02 am
by Jiggs
The topic of the thread can be intepreted in several different ways...
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:22 am
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:58 am
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