Keep PC from hibernating during the day

ydekmekji · 2005-12-10, 04:05 PM

Since I haven't been able to find a Wireless Wake on LAN feature, what i'd like is the ability to only hibernate at night. Anyone know of a program or a setting that will allow me to keep the computer on during the day and the hibernate feature only kicks in at a certain time in the evenings?

ricklous · 2005-12-11, 07:32 PM

hi there,
not a direct answer but....i have wireless wake-on-lan of a fashion...

i have a pc i use as a fileserver, and have a Belkin wireless ethernet bridge plugged into its on-board lan, and im able to wake it from standby, hibernate, or power off over the network using wake-on-lan.

*im assuming* it works because the ethernet bridge has its own power suppy, and therefore it alway exists with an IP address on the wireless network, regardless of power state of the PC its bridged to. And so because its always on, its able to receive the magic packet and pass it on to the PC to be woken up.

ive no idea if all wireless bridges can do this as the one ive got is the only one ive had, but its model number is Belkin F5D7330

a more direct answer, is to enable hibernate in your power settings, but set 'PC hibernates after...' to 'never', so that once powered up it stays on, then use a scheduled task to hibernate the PC at whatever time you want to hibernate it at.
I have a utility called Shutdown which you can use with command line parameters to standby/hibernate/power off etc. you should be able to google for it, then make a scheduled task pointing to the utility to hibernate your PC.

hope this helps
Rick

ydekmekji · 2005-12-14, 06:43 PM

I tried the solution by creating a task to hibernate and for some reason, it's not kicking in. For the most part, I'm going to keep my pc on standby, that way I can just call my home phone number and turn the PC on. But I'd like to hibernate it at night (like between 12am and 6am)... It's just not doing it.

libelle109 · 2006-01-29, 08:34 AM

Hi,

Take a look at the powercfg (powercfg /?) command line util in windows and use it with scheduler - I'm sure it will help you.

Best regards
Martin