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everything can be sold seperately. Should have said, anything bought would have to be picked up in MOST cases! i'm in Macclesfield Cheshire

I posted about this a month or so ago but the numbers and details have changed slightly and i am in the position now where i can get rid of all this equipment asap. What we have available is the following; Will be happy to post pictures or more details for anything you are interested in. As the Trolleys still sell for approx £4500 we wouldnt be letting this go cheaply. 1 x LapSafe Mentor Smartline S30 Laptop Trolley (1 lock has a key snapped off inside) 21 x Dell OptiPlex GX620 SFF 10 x Dell OptiPlex SX280 SFF 5 x Dell OptiPlex 745 SFF 23 x Dell GX60 (smaller case with no CD drive) 14 x Dell GX60 (smaller case with no CD drive but with 1 GB RAM instead of the usual 512MB) 1 x Dell GX60 (larger case with CD drive) 1 x Dell GX280 (larger case with CD drive) 39 x Dell E178FPv monitors 29 x Dell E173FPf monitors 2 x Dell E171FP monitors 2 x Dell E193FPp monitors 1 x Dell PowerVault 114T with 1 x Ultrium LTO 2 Tape Drive 19 x Maxell Ultrium LT02 Tapes (never used and sealed) 4 x Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 Laptops 2 x Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 Laptops 1 x HP Photosmart C6280 All In One Printer and box toner cartridges 13 x Genius KB C100 PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse sets (all unboxed and brand new) 26 x Dell PS/2 keyboards 50 x Dell USB keyboards 34 x Dell USB laser mice

wol.exe i find a good test, once i knew it was working with this, tried again with NetSupport and worked fine. The computersa you are sending the packets from are on the same subnet as the clients i assume?

what program are you using to WOL?

Ook got it working!!!! Now waking up from full shutdown... even though the NIC LED's are all off. Heres what i did (although really its a combo of what i was told yesterday, i just was accepting that no LEDs meant it wasnt going to work and didnt really try any WOL programs enough) In BIOS it needs; 1.Enter bios to set “LAN option ROM” enable.(Integrated Peripherals-> LAN option ROM) 2.Enter bios to set “Resume By PCI or PCI-E Device”enable.(Power management setup->Wake up Event Setup) 3.EUP 2013 DISABLED!!! (this was the key, if this is enabled it wont work for me) and that is it, ive even unticked "allow this device to wake the PC" in the network adapter properties in windows and its working.

tried, doesnt appear to have made any difference

I found that you can set the bios wake to anything and they wont actually affect waking from keyboard and mice in windows. if you "Standby" the pc in windows you can wake it from cliknig the mouse or pushing a key on the keyboard but you have to go into device manager and go into the properties of your mouse and keyboard and tick the box that says "allow this device to wake the computer" do that and it works for me fine, like i say regardless of what is set in the bios, agreeing that it just doesnt seem to work at all the bios wake features. This way i'll have all of them go to standby after 2 hours idle and hopefully overnight it wont be getting TOO hot in the cupboards or use too much elecricity. I have just found one downside though. for the updates to be installed that WSUS dishes out, you have to do "shutdown and install" if i'm not going to be shutting the PCs down, only logging off then no windows updates will get installed until i go round and shut them down myself and then have to switch them all back on one by one!

OK updated NIC to latest Realtek driver, in windows nic has "shutdown wake on lan" enabled and "allow this device to wake computer" ticked. EUP in the bios is disabled, and wake up menu has PCI/PCIe enabled. Power off and no LED's blinknig with power off

I was under the impression there were different states of standby S1-S4 and that a complete shutdown is the next level up from S4? I've not tried disabling EUP 2013, i'll have a go now, it in the bios because i've not seen it before? I'll also make sure i have the latest Realtek driver too and see what happens. I've logged a call with MSI myself and asked on their forums but by all means if you think you can get a response from them quicker, i'd appreciate all the help i can get!

yes thats enabled, in windows the "allow this device to wake the computer" is ticked too. but in the bios even if i enable allow pci and pcie devices to wake, this is referring to waking from S3 which is a standby state and not a complete shutdown

Doing all that still gives no LED when you power the machine off and subsequently doesnt respond to WOL. what is EUP 2013 though?

Thanks, the problem is though that this will be just to wake from standby and from a complete shutdown which we currently do. I've resigned myself to the fact it isnt going to work though and will just have to leave them on 24/7 but on standby and wake them using the keyboard and mouse.

right this is what i think i'm going to do after some testing. Going to have to set the computers to "Standby" after 2 hours and have the keyboard and mouse working in waking them. I'll then remove the ability to shutdown and standby option from the user interface with group policy (i'm assuming you can remove the standby option but still have the standby command to work after 2 hours) and that i can remove these not only from the start menu when a user is logged on, but also from the menu at the cntrl+alt+del screen? Not really what i wanted to do but it looks like the best bet if i can do everything i said above.

Problem is all this WOL stuff i and you have found dos_box is just to wake it from S3 which is just sleeping. We have a shutdown script that switches all pc's off each night. It doesnt look like this is going to be possible to get them to power on using WOL like we have been doing with the old PC's. I cant get the LEDs to stay on the NIC when its shut down, which they should be doing. So as someone said i think if it cant be done the only idea will be to try and disable the shutdown setting and so that they just sleep (S3) and then wake them with a move of the mouse and have to leave them on 24/7 - even though i dont really want to do it like this. Thanks for all the help so far though

LAN Option ROM is just enabling PXE boot unfortuntately and the wake up event list is just what i described above. The option not to allow them to shutdown i might have to use, but then we might have to leave the computers on 24/7 which clearly isnt a great idea. So angry, rigtht now, we have Dells from about 10 years ago which have WOL, i just dont get why you wouldnt include it, grrrrr!

PXE boot is enabled and works, but the only options in wake up are "OS" or "BIOS" and under bios there is wake from S3 (which i believe is a sleep mode and not fully powered off) for USB, PCI/PCIe and by alarm. Checked bios updates and is the latest version.

it has wake oin alarm but from looking i think you can only set it once, so you pick your day and time but cant say to turn on every day at x o'clock. It also causes a problem if someone in class shuts it down rather than logs off, no one can turn it back on without opening the cupboards.

We've had a major upgrade of our ICT suites and had new cabinets fitted to to be able to lock the new computers away underneath the desks. I've got everything setup and plugged in and we use NetSupport to wake and power on the machines. To my horror it looks as though the mainboard in the new PC's (MSI H61M-E33) does not have wake on lan option!! so im now stuck with computers locked away in cupboards with no way to turn them on each morning. I cant believe any motherboard today doesnt come with wake on lan but it looks that way. I'm really stuck for ideas, can anyone suggest anything i can try or another way of controlling the pcs while keeping them locked away. I'm thinking some kind of hibernation rather than shutting them down if they can then be woken by the keyboard??

Celeron 2.0 GHZ 40 GB IDE Hard Drives 512 MB DDR 1 No Optical Drive... but a floppy drive wayhay!

I was onto a recycling company this morning who has said he has a school after a few and he seems to think they'd pay £3000 for it as they still sell for £4500. But saying that i may be more tempted to cutout the middle man and sell directly to another school.

Heres some pics, both locks on the front have keys snapped in the lock, so they'd have to be removed or have the locks replaced, probably wouldnt cost too much i imagine.

Macclesfield, Cheshire

if you give me until 3 i'll go down and find it and take a pic for you.

We have the following we no longer have a use for and are willing to sell LapSafe Mentor Smartline S30 Laptop Trolley (1 lock has a key snapped off inside) 60 x Dell E178FPv TFT Monitors 30 x Assortement of mostly Dell 17EFP and some 19EFP TFT monitors 38 x Dell GX60 Desktop PCs with Dell KB and mouse 21 x Dell OptiPlex GX620 SFF PCs with Dell KB and mouse 10 x Dell OptiPlex SX280 SFF PCs with Dell KB and mouse 5 x Dell Optiplex 745 SFF PCs with Dell KB and mouse 1 x Dell PowerVault 114T with 1 Ultrium LTO2 tape drive 19 x Maxell Ultrium LT02 Tapes (sealed) 1 x HP Photosmart C6280 printer with inks The only item we are looking for a considerable sum for is the Laptop Trolley as they still sell for approx £4500. If you are interested let me know.

i'm a bit clueless, how do they work, like how do you get on the info you want on them, printed on? and how much and where do you get them from?