Start laptop when AC Power

**Flaring_Afro** · 04-23-2009, 09:02 AM

when its in hibernate, windows isnt running. its the equivalent of being off, just it saves the ram to the hard drive. if software wakes it up, your computer isnt going into hibernate.

**marazi** · 04-24-2009, 01:49 PM

will this work to wake the laptop from standby...??
thats the onlything missng from putting my msi wind in the car... i need a way to start it up, and cant get wake on lan to work

**chrisngrod** · 04-27-2009, 12:15 PM

It's called your finger.... Just kidding. Do you mean you're mounting it in a location that isn't within your reach?

I couldn't get my Aspire to wake on lan either. If I wanted to I could build the momentary power switch, but for right now I'll stick to pushing the power button and letting software turn it off.

Has anyone gotten the OPs method to work in any form or fashion (hibernate [which I really suspect wouldn't work like others] or standby)?

**dragons0088** · 04-29-2009, 04:22 PM

Originally Posted by marazi

will this work to wake the laptop from standby...??
thats the onlything missng from putting my msi wind in the car... i need a way to start it up, and cant get wake on lan to work

I too am running an MSI wind. I have it in my glove box and its just annoying to reach in there and turn it on everytime i get in my car. What i did was tell it to allow the touchscreen to wake it up from standby. So whenever i get in my car i just tap the screen and windows pops right up and im good to go. Now the only problem i get is that the battery doesnt last very long in standby. Not 100% sure why not or how to get it to last longer but its really annoying me now!

**chrisngrod** · 04-29-2009, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by dragons0088

I too am running an MSI wind. I have it in my glove box and its just annoying to reach in there and turn it on everytime i get in my car. What i did was tell it to allow the touchscreen to wake it up from standby. So whenever i get in my car i just tap the screen and windows pops right up and im good to go. Now the only problem i get is that the battery doesnt last very long in standby. Not 100% sure why not or how to get it to last longer but its really annoying me now!

You are keeping in mind that anything connected to your USB ports are sucking up power right? If you have a long enough drive to recharge the batteries think about the 9 cell. http://gizmodo.com/5208885/msi-wind-...t-and-day-long

**hertzelb** · 05-04-2009, 03:33 PM

thats work for in vista but the scheduled tasks wake up from hibernation every 1 minute even when i dont dont get ac power.
i check the box "Stop if computer switches to battery" but the computer still make it and then go to hibernation mode (i don't plugged ac power).
what i need to check at the "if the task runing"?

**taterm07** · 05-06-2009, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by Flaring_Afro

when its in hibernate, windows isnt running. its the equivalent of being off, just it saves the ram to the hard drive. if software wakes it up, your computer isnt going into hibernate.

This is 100% correct and this is exactly why this process will not work in hibernation. The only difference between "shut down" and "hibernate" is the fact that windows saves the current programs running, etc to disk, then shuts down just as it would if you clicked "turn off computer"

**hxe** · 09-20-2009, 06:13 AM

I have solved this problem by activating wake-on-link feature on my laptop (Compaq Mini) network adapter and using mini ethernet switch which is powered when I'm turning my car on.
Laptop will go to the hibernate mode after 10 minutes when it's running on battery.

Buffalo USB mini ethernet switch is really small and can take power from USB port. I have 12V universal laptop car adaptor with USB port and the ethernet switch is connected to it.

This solution works both on stand-by and hibernate.