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After all these years I have finally started playing around with turning on computer remotely. A Vostro 230 in particular. I use TeamViewer. The short question is ..... has anyone gotten Wake on LAN to work with a Vostro 230 when it is shut off?

The long question.... while I was working with tech support from TeamViewer they had me go in to Network and Sharing and set some advanced options on the Ethernet adapter. I asked they why ... because with the computer off these setting wouldn't affect the NIC would they? He actually wasn't sure. The only way Windows settings would affect a NIC on a turned off computer would be if those setting were stored in some kind of NVRAM on the NIC would it? Does anyone know?

ZiggyStardust
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It's an issue with Windows 8/10. You need to disable hybrid shutdown (S4) for WOL to work, which Microsoft changed to be the default "Shutdown" option in Win 8 (the machine will boots faster from S4 than it does from S5). I got bitten with this when we first started rolling out Win8. Here's a link to Microsoft's page on the issue: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2776718

SoulkeepHL
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The issue with the Vostro 230 is with the age and the BIOS of the Vostro 230. Works fine with any other Dell more recent. Not an issue with 8 or 10.

ZiggyStardust
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