Comments on: How can I save money and power on my home servers?

By: apple][e

apple][e — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:59:03 +0000

All of my dells have the option to turn on at a specific time.

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:40:26 +0000

none of my dells have this :(

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:32:35 +0000

Don't know about you, but every computer I have ever worked on, had, or have, has a feature in the BIOS to turn it on by itself at a specific time. And to turn it off you then can use some free app.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:20:20 +0000

Computers from this century were made to be shutdown instead of always on. But this s3 sleep is not really totally powered off.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:15:17 +0000

I read somewhere that powering up and powering down your computer lots of time isn't good for the hardware?

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:36:22 +0000

But to turn it back on you need to manually power her back up :(

By: spanznet

spanznet — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:21:38 +0000

amazing timing, I just finished researching a way to shutdown my pc after my 'off-peak' download time finishes at 12 noon (stupid Australian broadband). I pretty much concluded there was no freeware way to do it until I discovered the DOS command 'at'. So now I have on my desktop a batch file that contains:

at 12:01pm shutdown.exe -s

which I double-click on my way out the door in the mornings of the days that I want my pc to shutdown. Easy and free.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:52:12 +0000

I don't really understand how it works either, but it does. I assume it's some type of WOL thing, but it's waking itself up. That's the great part, you don't have to leave any other machine on to send the magic packet.

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:31:02 +0000

Apparently the hardware does not need to be compliant and here is a free app to wake up machines that go into sleep mode via power settings:

http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gu...“>
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Its free – none of the bells and whistles like the above app but it is a great proof of concept that you can script these "magic packets" yourself! I haven't played with WOL since Windows NT with NinjaAdmin. What was that like 1998?

Anyone else using this for something?

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:31:02 +0000

Apparently the hardware does not need to be compliant and here is a free app to wake up machines that go into sleep mode via power settings:

Anyone else using this for something?

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:23:55 +0000

It uses S3 Sleep Mode like WOL ( http://www.ezlan.net/WOL.html “>http://www.ezlan.net/WOL.html ) does but from what i can gather it makes it work even if your NIC or MainBoard doesn't support it. I don't know how or if it really does but there is no hard ware requirements. 30 day trial – Guess I will give it a go on some of my older headless windows 2000 servers.

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:23:55 +0000

By: NinjaAdmin

NinjaAdmin — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:17:56 +0000

If your machines support it Wake on Lan is the way to go. The Admin and i set up a office in a to remain nameless third world country that was power conscience this way (think hand cranks and batteries.) This allowed the servers to be on when needed and in a deep sleep when not needed. Its not fully off but it does pretty good.

How does this application work?