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Enabling wake up on Lan in Dimension 8300
Some history first. 2 years ago I purchased Dimension 8200 equipped with WOL enabled 3COM NIC. To make the WOL work I had to activate Remote wake up option in the BIOS as well as on the card. So it worked fine. Now the problematic part: few days ago I purchased a brand new Dimension 8300 , this time without wol-enabled NIC. I went to a store and picked up a WOL enabled D-link 538TX which I then installed into the new PC. The I went to the BIOS to activate the wol support and ... gues what.. there is no such option there at all. I enabled all the wake up options on the NIC driver and tried it (It didn't work of course, since the light on the nic would not be on when the pc was turned off). I went on dell's site and downloaded newly posted A3 version of the BIOS thinking that this might solve it. Nope. Still no Remote wake up option in the BIOS.
Could you please advise. I wonder if anyone was able to WOL with Dimension 8300 and if so what NIC do you use and do you see the Remote Wake up option in the BIOS?
Thanks beforehand
DELL-Cody
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October 27th, 2003 15:00
krikkit_war
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October 28th, 2003 17:00
_Paladin
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October 28th, 2003 20:00
RochesterDoug,
Based on this, that NIC is PCI 2.2 compliant. See Product Description - second paragraph - ninth line. Whether the XPS T450 is, is another question.
RochesterDoug
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October 28th, 2003 20:00
edojan
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October 28th, 2003 22:00
DFE 550-TX is PCI 2.2 complient (that what it says, anyway). So is the 3COM card installed on my older 8200 (i.e. it doesn't need the wire and is powered via PCI bus). The problem is that 8300 BIOS doesn't show wake up on lan at all. Dell's tech suport person explained to me over the phone that if it was the 3COM wol enabled card distributed by Dell then it would have been showing in the BIOS. But she was unable to explain why one card with PCI 2.2 support would show up while the other one (also with 2.2 support) wouldn't. Can anyone confirm this that if I go to Dell's website and order the 3COM NIC (with wol support) then it would work. In other words I don't need to change the motherboard or something...
Thanks for your replies
Ed
krikkit_war
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February 22nd, 2005 17:00
to enable WOL on the onboard network interface on dimension 8300 system, you first need to get the following software from the dell hp
Dell Client Configuration Utility (i used version v.1.1.111.0, A00)
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=R73202
this tool is normally only for business systems like optiplex, but after trying this tool at work on my business machine, i thought, why not give it a try on my dimension 8300 system at home...
...get this tool, install it... start it... first select get values ... crate package... run the created .exe ..now you have a "DCCUResults.xml" with the BIOS settings of your system.. now to actually enable WOL, you need the "set values" tab of the tool ... here the important settings are:
WakeupOnLAN 6 = Enabled for all NICs
WakeupOnLANMethod 3 = Magic Packet
create package, run it... voila... WOL should work now...
jwatt
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February 22nd, 2005 23:00
Thanks for the information! I downloaded it, and ran into a problem that's not supposed to happen, according to the notes on the download page:
"The .Net Framework is required on the DCCU administrative machine, but is not required on the client machines. The .Net Framework is a free download from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/net)"
Unfortunately, the DCCU won't install if the .Net Framework isn't present on the client.
Jim
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February 23rd, 2005 18:00
PaoloPV
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jackstow
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January 7th, 2009 02:00
I downloaded and installed the Dell Client Configuration Utility. The WakeupOnLAN option is there and can be set to 6. Frustratingly though, the WakeupOnLANMethod box is greyed out and marked as 'not settable'. Is there something I need to do to enable that option? Spent too long already trying to get this working and that greyed out tick box may be the last piece of the puzzle..
jackstow
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January 8th, 2009 02:00
After using the get values option again it looks like WakeUpOnLANMethod has been set to 3/magic packet anyway. So, not being able to set it is no longer an issue. My Dimension 4700 now wakes on lan :emotion-2: - great stuff.