xtremee Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Hi all,I have an old PC that I wanna to wake-on-lan (WOL) it.My old PC has Motherboard Gigabyte GA-8SR533. In the BIOS setting I found Modem/Wake-on-Lan I checked if it work with my D-Link 520Tx PCI card but it don't.Any ideas!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointertovoid Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 One possible cause would be if your current power supply is a pre-Atx one (corresponds to P1 vs PII era).Atx introduced improvements to allow wake-on-lane; especially, they supply a weak, separate, permanent +5V to all devices that are allowed to wakeup the PC: mouse, keyboard, Lan cards, modems.An Atx power supply lets some peripherals react when you switch the current on but the Bios starts only with the "Atx power" button. Well, normally. And an Atx power supply disconnected from the mobo doesn't rotate its fan until you short two special pins at the output.I didn't check if the D-Link 520Tx PCI has the (common) capability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtremee Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 I think that my LAN card do not support WOLSo, Is there are anyway to get out of that (not buy a new one)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 (not buy a new one)?If it doesn't do WOL (and clearly it doesn't)... you need an other card. A 2nd hand card will cost you less than 5 euro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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