Having some trouble getting Wake On Lan (WOL) to work on an Asus E35M1-M PRO with Windows 8

[Grizzly]

Hi everyone

Over the last couple of days I've been trying to get WOL to work on my HTPC, specs as follows:

Asus E35M1-M PRO Motherboard

Mushkin Essentials 4GB 1333 RAM

FSP 300W PSU

1TB Hitachi HDD

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

I have enabled 'Wake on PME' in the BIOS, apparently the motherboards name for WOL.

I have enabled all WOL settings under the advanced tab for the onboard Realtek NIC.

I have disabled 'Allow windows to turn off this device' under Power Management.

I have given the PC a static IP.

When the PC is on and I use Magic Packet Sender I get a response.

But when the PC is asleep or off I get nothing.

So does anybody have any idea what I might be missing?

I think the problem may be that the NIC turns itself off when I turn the PC off or put it to sleep.

The lights next to the ethernet port aren't on or flashing.

But I haven't been able to find a BIOS option to keep the NIC on when the PC turns off.

Or for that matter to turn the NIC on when the PC has power, since it will occasionally be off at the plug.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

Windows 8 is still in beta my friend.

And win8 is pretty much designed for tablets and smartphones aswell as the all in one youch computer sand touch monitorts etc. not for casual pcs

Id stick with win7 atleast until the win8 has a official released version. beta is even more buggier than the released vista

 

[Grizzly]

Windows 8 is still in beta my friend.

And win8 is pretty much designed for tablets and smartphones aswell as the all in one youch computer sand touch monitorts etc. not for casual pcs

Id stick with win7 atleast until the win8 has a official released version. beta is even more buggier than the released vista

I'm only on Windows 8 since I don't have a spare copy of Windows 7 lying around.

Besides from shutdown I don't believe WOL is OS dependent so it shouldn't matter much what OS I have.

 

[Grizzly]

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[Grizzly]

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[KING_OF_SAND]

I think this is an ASUS problem. I have NEVER been able to get my WOL to work on any one of my three asus boards.

 

[Rastalovich]

Have a good read of this and be sure you're understanding what it's describing.

http://www.intel.com...b/CS-000084.htm

I know it's Intel, but afaic WOL is a general principle that should apply to all nics that allow it, and supporting mobos.

The OS type won't make a difference. Only thing that could make a difference within the OS are drivers for the nics that can change setting of them. Goto Device Manager and look at the magic packets/WOL settings etc. I *think* this mostly effects sleeping. But not turning on.

 

[Grizzly]

Decided to try enabling Wake on Ring, since I knew Wake on RTC/Keyboard/Mouse wouldn't help and I already had Wake on PME enabled.

Despite everything including the page Ras referenced pointing to PME being the vital part enabling Ring seems to have worked! Huzzah!

Going to see how many power saving features I can re-enable now without running into problems.

EDIT: I've managed to re-enable all power saving features, Wake on PME and Wake on Ring both need to be enabled for Wake on Lan on this motherboard.