It's funny - most people fuss for days trying to get WOL working and
here you have it working when you don't want it to.
You can disable WOL from your BIOS setup or from Settings - Control
Panel - System - Harware - Device Manager - - right-click - Properties - Advanced
tab.
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You must have "Wake On Lan" enabled.
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nelamvr6
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Its a feature i want to keep, i was just interested in how it worked.
Having looked at the network card config, wake on lan was actually
disabled, but it still seems to work.
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strange. Did you check the setting in Windoze? (Manual explains where
it is)
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An' foolish notion."
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I can't explain why it works when it's turned off, some misunderstanding
somewhere there, but let me tell you how WOL works and maybe some more
will come clear.
When you turn a modern PC off by its own power switch (not with a power
bar), you don't really turn it all off. Small bits of it stay on
my system seems to act very much like russj's. i never changed any
settings, but still my sb3 is able to start up my pc. contrary to russj
however, i'd really like to disable this function. strange thing is
though, in my bios it says "Power On by Modem/LAN" -> Disabled. the
settings for my LAN in
strapats Wrote:
> does anyone have an idea of how this might be possible?
the only thing that comes to mind ... any chance you have 2 network
cards in that PC and it's only turned off for the other one?
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strapats Wrote:
> my system seems to act very much like russj's. i never changed any
> settings, but still my sb3 is able to start up my pc. contrary to russj
> however, i'd really like to disable this function. strange thing is
> though, in my bios it says "Power On by Modem/LAN" -> Disabled. th
thank you very much for replying, i appreciate the suggestions. i don't
have a second network card, just an onboard nic. i'll have another look
in my motherboard's manual. if that doesn't help, perhaps i'll have a go
at updating the bios. though that isn't something i trust myself with.
btw, i sh
