autoboot
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Topic: autoboot
Posted By: huwnet
Subject: autoboot
Date Posted: 16 June 2004 at 8:43am
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In scheduled tasks options there is an option to "wake computer to run this task". However the computer will only automatically wake if it is put in hibernation. Is there any way of it booting up without being in hibernation? |
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 16 June 2004 at 12:31pm
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When the computer is in hibernation mode, some background tasks - like the scheduler, keyboard monitor, etc. - are still active. If it's turned off, there's no juice to run any tasks. ------------- 
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Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 16 June 2004 at 2:30pm
| Maybe it's possible to set some start timers in the BIOS.. |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 16 June 2004 at 4:46pm
| How is your PC supposed to check whether it's time to boot up if it is turned off though. Maybe by a CMOS chip and a lot of transistors |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 16 June 2004 at 4:57pm
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i have my server to automatically start at 6:58 AM every morning... so if i turn it off it's ready for work by the time i get out of bed. It was a BIOS setting ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 16 June 2004 at 4:59pm
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the BIOS stores the time... ever wonder how windows magically knows what time it is when you first install it? plus there's a battery in there that keeps a little juice to the bios... so all the BIOS has to do at the time to boot is to contact the power supply and tell it to increase it's 5 volt feed to 120 volt and you have a running computer ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Mart wrote:Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 17 June 2004 at 8:24am
| OK. I cannot set a boot time from the BIOS. However Scheduled tasks can manage to boot the computer i it is set in the settings. There must be some sort of program that can set the bios boot time. |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 17 June 2004 at 8:34am
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For example this program is meant to work: http://www.pcworlddownload.com/system-utilities/system-utilities/the-beetle-alarm+.htm - http://www.pcworlddownload.com/system-utilities/system-utili ties/the-beetle-alarm+.htm (I haven't tried it yet!) |