How can I turn on a computer when it is truned off ?
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
OK - but what if your computer is not hibernating or in a suspended state: really "off"? You can buy power supplies that respond to "power on" signals, there are even power supplies that respond to SMS messages. (I had a remote installation near to the North Pole where the power continually failed and the machine had to be rebooted remotely - worked fine, perhaps because it was Linux with no GUI ;)).
Why make life more difficult than it is?
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
Go buy an iBoot its a remotly controllable surge protector/ power supply. Most will run a website but others have a web service like interface you can code to, to do things. Or it may have a scheduling feature, some also can send out heartbeats and do things when they miss a certain number of packets. We used it to automatically reboot the web server when its NIC would crash. yes we replaced the server, only took a day or 3 to get one from dell.
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
Nobody's mentioned this hardware solution yet. A great many BIOSes have an option to power the system back on when power is restored. So, if you have a programmable outlet timer (easily purchased at a hardware store) and you know with absolute certainty that the system will always, always, always be off during a certain window before the desired power-on time, that could be an option. Just set the timer to turn off power a few minutes earlier, then turn it on again at your chosen time. Bingo, you only spent about as much on this as you would on a sandwich or some Starbucks, and you got to visit the hardware store. I'd call that a two-for-one bonus, wouldn't you?
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
Assuming you're away from your machine, probably the best you're going to do is have it in hibernation with an alarm to wake it up at the appointed time. If you're accessing the machine remotely, it shouldn't be hard to send it a command to return to hibernation (I'm assuming this - never tried it) when you're done. Or, you can train your cat to push the power button. :)
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You win. It is past 10 o'clock and nobody offered a real solution. :)
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Buy a mechanical timer and set the BIOS to start up the computer after a power outage. The timer turns on the power to the computer and the BIOS causes it to boot up.
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Virtually all PCs today in their BIOS should have an option, typically in the power management settings, for setting a "Power On Alarm", or something of that sort. If there is a way to set this programmatically within an application, I don't know of it.
As Kenneth stated, if you get into your system BIOS at bootup, normally by pressing or holding down a function key during POST, you should find Power Management or Auto Power On settings. Once enabled, you should also be able to select a time for everyday, or weekdays only. Obviously, these features depend on your BIOS version. This works on my Dell Optiplex 960 as well as my optiplex GX270 (2003 model).
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Most BIOS's have a feature for turning on the machine at a certain time/date.
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Really? I've never seen that in any of my computers.
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
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Really? I've never seen that in any of my computers.
I think it is called something like "Wake on RTC" (RTC = Real Time Clock, i.e. the clock on the motherboard, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_clock[^]). An "alarm time" can be programmed into this (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTC_Alarm[^]). Media Center software usually have this feature so it can wake up and perform the next scheduled recording.
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I think it is called something like "Wake on RTC" (RTC = Real Time Clock, i.e. the clock on the motherboard, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_clock[^]). An "alarm time" can be programmed into this (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTC_Alarm[^]). Media Center software usually have this feature so it can wake up and perform the next scheduled recording.
OK, maybe I have then and just never realized what it was. Thanks. This could be useful.
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
I know it is possible, as I had a virus do it to a Gateway 509GE I used to have. Every night, even though it was off, shutdown, not in sleep mode, it would turn itself on at a certain time. I fixed it by resetting the bios and completely reformatting the disk. But I don't know how the turning itself on was done.
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
Drill a small hole in the bottom of a bucket. Fill the bucket full of sand. Let the sand fall out of the bucket onto some scales. When the scales swing down, this will turn on a switch and turn on a computer. The computer will turn on a toy car that will drive across the room and hit a second switch. This will turn on the second computer. The second computer will then move a robotic arm. This arm will turn on a switch. This will turn on the third computer. The third computer will turn on a magnet. This will lift a gate and let a ball roll down a track. The ball will hit a switch at the bottom to the track and turn on the forth computer. The forth computer will then blow the main fuse as you are using too much electricity! :confused:
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Drill a small hole in the bottom of a bucket. Fill the bucket full of sand. Let the sand fall out of the bucket onto some scales. When the scales swing down, this will turn on a switch and turn on a computer. The computer will turn on a toy car that will drive across the room and hit a second switch. This will turn on the second computer. The second computer will then move a robotic arm. This arm will turn on a switch. This will turn on the third computer. The third computer will turn on a magnet. This will lift a gate and let a ball roll down a track. The ball will hit a switch at the bottom to the track and turn on the forth computer. The forth computer will then blow the main fuse as you are using too much electricity! :confused:
But Mark ... this is the C#-forum. I can't see, where you use C# in your solution. :)
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Drill a small hole in the bottom of a bucket. Fill the bucket full of sand. Let the sand fall out of the bucket onto some scales. When the scales swing down, this will turn on a switch and turn on a computer. The computer will turn on a toy car that will drive across the room and hit a second switch. This will turn on the second computer. The second computer will then move a robotic arm. This arm will turn on a switch. This will turn on the third computer. The third computer will turn on a magnet. This will lift a gate and let a ball roll down a track. The ball will hit a switch at the bottom to the track and turn on the forth computer. The forth computer will then blow the main fuse as you are using too much electricity! :confused:
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But Mark ... this is the C#-forum. I can't see, where you use C# in your solution. :)
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
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If there's no power, then you can only switch it on if you write a program to control a robot hand to switch it on.
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...and hope the robot hand has power available to it too. :laugh:
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guys i need to create a small application for turning on my computer at a given time. lets say now it is 8.00Pm and i need to turn on my computer when the system time is equal to 10.00 Pm .. so can any body help me to develop this program!
Your question is an oxymoron. If your PC is turned off than no apps can run on the same PC in that state. You need some HW accessing your PC's MOB integrated and battery powered clock to get the system time. This HW should also have a kind of source of power (i.e. a battery), read your clock, compare values and turn on your PC. How about a programmable UPS, or use your sprinkler control unit for manually regulate on/off times in advance, or just set your alarm (clock manual, phone via a program), wake up and use your finger to turn it on. Why even turn your PC completely off? What should the PC do after it is on?
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