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How can I wake up my pc while away, perhaps at a schedule, I have a UPS

I'm looking for a way to startup my pc while I'm away on holiday.

So I can log into to it over the net.

I have a UPS and the winpower software, but I'm not sure if this will do it.

lucidica-jamal

Hiya,

The Winpower Software can do scheduled shutdowns and restarts, it can not remotely start up a computer.

To do that you will need another piece of software.
The tutorial on how to do so is here: http://knowledgebyte.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!6F1742E22E12F5F0!1578.entry

Hope that helps!

mindwarpltd

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How do you schedule shutdowns and restarts with winpower?

jamietoner

Some motherboards have bios options to have the system start at set times during the day.

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lucidica-jamal

It is in the user manual, which is available here if you have lost it:
http://www.ups-software-download.com/winpower/data/WinPower%20Manual.pdf

mindwarpltd

ASKER

Hmmm, the Winpower On / Off Schedule, isn't that just turning the UPS on and off, not the pc?

I still have to press a button on my pc to start it up.

Would the UPS, somehow use the USB connection to start my pc ?

hathehariken

computers cannot be started via the USB. it can only be turned on by the LAN (using the WOL feature) or by directly using the power switch.

mindwarpltd

ASKER

I can do it in my bios, cool

Electronics

The best way to start your PC using USB is by setting up your PC to be in suspend S3 mode (in this mode system takes very very little power. you can wake up your system from USB from Suspend S3 (sleep) mode.

mindwarpltd

ASKER

S3 mode ?

hathehariken

but the problem with s3 mode is that it stores the system state in the RAM, ie, the RAM contains data. so if you experience power failure and the UPS switches off, because it senses no load, there goes your session down the drain...

better to wake up from hibernate of from shutdowned condition.

hathehariken.