Gigabyte BIOS/UEFI and WOL
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Apr 2 02:52:55 UTC 2014
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Warren Block wrote:
> So far I've tried and failed to get a Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 to wake from
> the network. It had the most recent BIOS (F13), which did not have a WOL
> option.
>
> A UEFI BIOS is available, so I've installed that, and still failed to get it
> to wake up. There are a bewildering number of undocumented options, none of
> which mentions WOL.
>
> Adding an Intel PCI card made no difference. The card LEDs are on when the
> system is off, but it still doesn't wake up.
>
> Once manually started, the system works fine, and ifconfig shows WOL_MAGIC.
>
> Any suggestions on things to try? I'm open to going back to a normal BIOS...
> if it will let me. It runs fine either way.
And of course I tried it one more time out of desperation and it worked.
I'll document the settings ...if they work again.
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