Windows question

[Ricardinho]

dont know if anyone can help, we have windows xp pc's at our office and we need one pc in particular to turn on at a specific time every day, can you do this does anyone know?

 

[Woodentop]

Most modern BIOS can be setup to turn pcs on at a certain time. Failing that you could setup a wake on lan job to run from another PC.

 

[Ricardinho]

how do i set up the bios one is it easy?

 

[Woodentop]

should be easy if it supports it, just enter the bios and look at the advanced power options.

 

[KDF]

If not you can set it to wake-on-lan then send a magic packet to wake it up using a scheduled task or a cron job. All the system in my work are set to shut down after working hours if there is no-one logged on, then at 7am in the morning a magic packet is send to the broadcast IP waking them all up.