IP35 Pro XE Wake on LAN

[Carr0t]

I'm sure I must just be doing something that's really simple wrong, but i can't work out what it is so i'm turning to people on here for help.

I have my mobo standby set to S3, such that when I set my Vista 64 box to standby it shouts off all the fans etc and appears to power the system right down, but wakes up within a few seconds if I hit the power button. I wanted to be able to do this and/or turn it right off and then wake it up remotely from another machine in the house (An always-on Linux box acting as my home gateway, with wake-on-LAN tools installed) so I could then rdesktop into it from elsewhere and do stuff.

The problem is, even though i've gone into the BIOS and enabled Wake via Onboard LANs 1 & 2, when I power off the machine or put it into standby it completely shut down the onboard network card, i.e. I have no link light on the switch into which the machine connects.. Obviously you can't remotely wake a machine via the network if it's network connection isn't even *up*, so what am I doing wrong? Is there some Windows setting I need to poke to make it not completely disable the network card on shutdown/sleep, or is there something in the BIOS i'm missing? Everything i've found online suggests that from the point of view of Windows it should be fairly simple and Just Work (tm) as long as i've got the 'Allow this device to bring the PC out of sleep' box checked, which I have.

Sorry for being a complete newb with this.

[zooburner]

Have you updated your BIOS , as i understand it there is a fix for exactly this problem, go to the Abit site look under BIOS and read the notes

(sorry I couldnt post a direct URL as I'm a new member)

zooburner

[Carr0t]

My mobo was on the latest BIOS out the box - id 11. The IP35 Pro goes all the way up to id 17, but the Pro XE only goes up to 11, which seems to share the same updates as version 17 for the normal Pro.