[OPLINTECH] Scheduled Turn-On of PCs in the morning?

[Chad]

Look in the BIOS for the option to turn on at a certain time.  Not all have 
the feature, but many do.

Chad J. Nichols
IT Director / Systems Administrator
Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County
201 N. Mulberry Street., Mount Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 392-2665 x245
On August 1, 2022 2:20:27 PM Nathan Eady via OPLINTECH 
<oplintech at lists.oplin.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've had a request, that I set up the computers here to turn themselves
> on in the morning shortly before people start to arrive.  My first
> coherent thought on the matter (after the initial "say WHAT?") was that
> maybe I could possibly make it happen with Wake On LAN somehow, but I'm
> discovering that despite how old WOL is, there's a disturbing amount of
> variety, from one computer to another, in terms of whether and to what
> extent the firmware implements WOL.  (Most of our computers use onboard
> LAN, as opposed to expansion-slot NICs.)
>
> So now I'm wondering if there's some more reliable mechanism, that I'm
> not aware of, to automatically power-on computers that have been shut
> down for the night.
>
> --
> Nathan Eady
> Galion Public Library
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