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How-to auto power-up at fixed time of day

I am running an ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe Mobo with an AMD 3500+ processor onboard and XP Pro MCE 2005 as the OS. I want the machine to power up automatically at a fixed time each day. The bios has a setting for an RTC alarm which "allows me to enable RTC to generate a wake event" but when I set this nothing happens at the designated time. This bios setting is on the power menu in the bios ; other possibly relevant settings on that menu are 'ACPI 2.0 support ' yes or No and 'ACPI APIC Support' Enabled or disabled, plus various other power on possibilities (by keyboard, mouse, modem and PCI PCI-Ex device)

bobby6k

have you tried updateing the BIOS on the ASUS website under your motherboard there is a BIOS release with a fix for WOL (wakeup on lan) that might help.

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

warning: updateing your BIOS can kill your motherboard if dune incorrectly make shoure that the BIOS your updateing is the one for your motherboard

kind, regards

Robert

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SteveHodge

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Thanks to both of you
bobby6k: the support disk that came with the mobo has a windows based bios check and update facility which I ran. It says that there are no better bios's on the asus server, so I dopped this line of attack given the dangers of messing about with the bios
crnz: What a neat pair of workarounds! I will implement both of them - many thanks