[1709, fcu] WOL Stops Working?

[speckytecky]

I've carried out both an OS replacement to W10 and upgrade from W7 on a few clients now and found that post the install/upgrade WOL isn't working. I guess I need to change something in the BIOS but haven't a clue what it might be?

[Steve21]

It's normally the fast boot, as it doesn't really shutdown but goes into standby etc. But disabling it slows the boot down etc

 

Steve

[free780]

I'd consider getting away from WOL. You can have a scheduled task that will wake your PCs.

[speckytecky]

Thanks, @free780 Do you happen to have a link on how to set that up, please?

 

I'd consider getting away from WOL. You can have a scheduled task that will wake your PCs.

[atcoates]

We had a similar problem today. Updating nic drivers worked for us.

[PyROm]

We had this, and installing the manufacturers drivers worked for us, however it felt a bit labor intensive. After playing about I discovered reg keys that enable WOL, they are not present in the Microsoft drivers as options, however the Microsoft driver does respect it, so no need to install new drivers.

 

The 4 digit number on the reg key represents the network interface number, to be safe you need to repeat the regkey for 0000 through to 0009 as it includes filter drivers etc. We just have them in a gpo.

 

R7 - Broadcom NetLink

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000" /t REG_SZ /v "WolSpeed" /d "0" /f

R20 - Intel 

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000" /t REG_SZ /v "EnablePME" /d "1" /f

Realtek

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000" /t REG_SZ /v "S5WakeOnLan" /d "1" /f

 

Before trying these I also tried the below, so dont know if this is needed as well or not.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000" /t REG_DWORD /v "PnPCapabilities" /d 36 /f