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XPS420: Does wake on lan work on this hardware?
I've just updated my XPS420 to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 and it would be quite handy if I were able to use the Wake-on-LAN functionality to enable me to wake it up with a WOL app I have on my smartphone.
The problem is that, despite having every conceivable setting enabled within the OS (NIC configuration settings) and having the Wake-on-LAN setting enabled in the BIOS (which seems to be a factiry default), I can't get it to wake up from standby or hibernate. If I set the OS to sleep I can get it to wake up with a magic packet with no problems.
I've installed wireshark on the machine and confirmed that the magic packet is actually reaching the station, so I know it isn't a problem with either the WOL app or my infrastructure.
I was playing with it yesterday and somehow managed to get it to wake from hibernate once, but since then (and as far as I can tell, without making any changes) I can only wake the machine up by physically pressing the power button.
Has anyone else successfully enabled WOL on their 420 to work from those power modes?
hoofster
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April 12th, 2017 07:00
Hi Jean,
Sadly, no. The short answer seems to be that the motherboard simply won't support standard WOL functionality (unless Dell released a bios update for it at some point).
I don't have my XPS420 any more, though.
Jean Sagi
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April 12th, 2017 07:00
Hey it's almost 7 years later !
And I'm in exactly the same situation a you were... only that I'm on Windows 10 Pro x64 (very similar ;)),
So, Did you managed to resolve your problem? If you did then some advice would be very welcome !
J.