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Starting from Hibernate or Standby without power button

Gerry1995 · 2010-04-13 11:24:12

I have a Dell Mini 10 netbook which I use as a media player and browser on my TV. I leave it under my TV with the cover closed when in use. It is set to Hibernate at 12.00 each evening. I use a remote keyboard to control it. Anyone know if there is a sw way of restarting without opening the cover to get at the power…

13-04-2010 11:24am

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Gerry1995

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I have a Dell Mini 10 netbook which I use as a media player and browser on my TV. I leave it under my TV with the cover closed when in use. It is set to Hibernate at 12.00 each evening. I use a remote keyboard to control it. Anyone know if there is a sw way of restarting without opening the cover to get at the power switch. I use Win xp.

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#2 13-04-2010 11:29am

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If the motherboard supports "Wake on LAN", that's really the only way you can boot up a machine from a powered off state.

It usually requires another network device to initiate the WOL packet though - if you have a smartphone like an iPhone, there may be a way of rigging it.

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