***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[NathObeaN]

Well it is the board that is at fault.

I have at last got it to WOL from a cold start (plug the computer into the power socket > WOL from iPhone).

The Solution: Enable ONLY 'Boot from PCI' and 'Wake from S5 state'. Before I had 'Boot from LAN' and it didn't like it.

However, if I shut down the computer using Windows, WOL fails to wake the computer.

So now I have problems with Windows and WOL! If I put the computer into sleep mode, it automatically turns back on!


PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

It was the ethernet drivers. I uninstalled the latest Intel ones, Windows automatically installed the ethernet drivers and it worked fine.

When I turned the computer off using the Intel drivers, the ethernet indication light went out. Using the stock Windows ones, the indicator light stays orange.

WOL now works perfectly, cold start, shutdown/S5 and sleep S3. The automatic wake from sleep was due to interference from mouse/keyboard. Removing their ability to wake the computer in Device manager fixed it. I am now able to turn my computer on from within my own LAN and over the WAN. I can also remote in using my iPhone over the LAN/WAN using Remotr -very good app by the way.

Strange that the official, latest drivers from Intel disable the WOL ability...