P55A-gd65 Wake on lan not reacting afther some time

[cube46]

Hello ,

Afther some days of testing i come here to get some help . I have a msi p55a-gd65 board in my server and I wanne use to wake it up with a lan connection .
What are the steps I already did :

The bios have been set to allow "wake on lan"
I changed the energy settings for the 2013  in to the power section of the bios
properties from my nic set to  : allow this device to wake the computer + recive magic package to start pc ,
I also uncheckd turn off lan connection for power saving.


the wierd thing is when i turn of the server and I test the wol function within 10 min the server is starting up , when I shut down the server for a couple of hours the WOL function dos not react anymore .


is there anybody who can help me?

 

[T_MaP]

Hi.

When you say that you shut down the server, do you mean that you put the system into the sleep mode (S3)?

 

[cube46]

Hello,

Everynight when i go to sleep I power down the pc beceause when I put my pc in sleep mode than all the fans are still working .

When I put my system in sleep mode : screen,video card and hdd fall of but the coolingsystem stil works that is the reason why I shut down my system.

 

[T_MaP]

Is the power supply fan running along with the other fans while your computer is in sleep mode (S3)?

 

[gambol]

Hi,
I am trying to setup WOL on my P55A-GD65 board as well (computer running Windows 7 SP1). Unsuccesfully for the moment... So I'm glad hearing someone that managed to do it  
Here is what I did:

I tried configuring my NIC as well in order to (No/Yes):
[N] turn off lan connection for power saving
[Y] allow this device to wake the computer
  [Y] receive magic package to start pc

But when I click OK, close the settings window, and reopen it, the check boxes appear like this (which, I guess, is not what I want):
[N] turn off lan connection for power saving
[N] allow this device to wake the computer
  [Y] receive magic package to start pc

That's why I finally left the default configuration (which seems to be ok according to windows 7 help - search "wake on lan" - since WOL is activated by default on desktop machines):
[Y] turn off lan connection for power saving
[Y] allow this device to wake the computer
  [Y] receive magic package to start pc

I installed a magic packet sniffer and made sure that I actually receive the magic packet.
One additional remark: when I take a look at the LEDs on my switch, when I shutdown the PC, one of the 2 LEDS (for this slot) remains turned on (unplugging the RJ-45 cable turns it off).

However I just can't find anything in the BIOS explicitly related to WOL. What BIOS version do you have (mine is 1.2 - got it from MSI Control Center utility)?
I do see the energy settings for the 2013 (disabled), but there is nothing related to networking (only see events related USB, PS2 mouse, PS2 keyboard,PCI, PCI-E, RTC alarm).
I also tried both S1 and S3 settings. None of them seem to work.

Many thanks in advance for your remarks.

 

[gambol]

On last remark concerning my previous post:
I can WOL my pc after I put my PC in sleep mode: the magic packet does awake it.
However, when I shutdown it, I can't WOL it anymore.
Do you think I am misunderstanding what WOL actually is? Is it only supposed to work on an "asleep" PC and not on a shutdown PC?

 

[gambol]

the wierd thing is when i turn of the server and I test the wol function within 10 min the server is starting up , when I shut down the server for a couple of hours the WOL function dos not react anymore .

Could it be a matter of router configuration? I read (http://www.dslreports.com/faq/wol?text=1) that multicast IPs should be hard coded in the ARP table of the routers and that some routers flush the ARP table a few minutes after the computer is turned off.
Please note that I am not an expert in the domain. Your problem just remind me that.

 

[T_MaP]

I believe wake is from  sleep only. When you power down completely, there is nothing left in the system RAM to wake from.