I have never seen a PC that would "power on" from the keyboard. You can restore a PC from the standby modes from a keyboard, but not actually power it on. Laptops do have the power switch, usually just above the keyboard but that is totally different from a desktop or what you are looking for.
Many PC's have an option in the BIOS to automatically power on every day at a certain time. That may be helpful to have them power on daily at a certain time, rather than manually having to do it.
Or do you mean to resume from standby by pressing a key on the keyboard? As fireberd said, I've never heard of being able to bring any machine from power off (or hibernation) by pressing anything other than the power button.
For XP (Vista is probably similar), you can control whether the keyboard and mouse will wake the machine from standby by going to Device Manager (right click on My Computer and select Manage) and then the Power Management page for the keyboard and mouse and checking Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby.
However, I do have one machine (not a Dell) that still won't allow the keyboard/mouse bring it out of standby.
The standard Dell mouse and keyboard use USB and are listed as 'HID-compliant' in XP Device Manager. And they don't have a powermanagement-tab like PS/2 keyboards do... Hmmm.....
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I have never seen a PC that would "power on" from the keyboard. You can restore a PC from the standby modes from a keyboard, but not actually power it on. Laptops do have the power switch, usually just above the keyboard but that is totally different from a desktop or what you are looking for.
Many PC's have an option in the BIOS to automatically power on every day at a certain time. That may be helpful to have them power on daily at a certain time, rather than manually having to do it.
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September 4th, 2008 14:00
Or do you mean to resume from standby by pressing a key on the keyboard? As fireberd said, I've never heard of being able to bring any machine from power off (or hibernation) by pressing anything other than the power button.
Peter
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September 8th, 2008 14:00
For XP (Vista is probably similar), you can control whether the keyboard and mouse will wake the machine from standby by going to Device Manager (right click on My Computer and select Manage) and then the Power Management page for the keyboard and mouse and checking Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby.
However, I do have one machine (not a Dell) that still won't allow the keyboard/mouse bring it out of standby.
Peter
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September 9th, 2008 08:00
The standard Dell mouse and keyboard use USB and are listed as 'HID-compliant' in XP Device Manager. And they don't have a powermanagement-tab like PS/2 keyboards do... Hmmm.....
Simon