Intel’s New Remote Wake Up Motherboards

August 14, 2008 · Filed Under Anything Intel, Technology

Beginning next month, you’ll be able to purchase Intel motherboards for your PC that you can put to sleep, then remotely wake up to full power by calling it, thereby saving power as opposed to leaving it on and waiting for something to trigger it.

What’s new with that, you may think, and some might even remember that present motherboards have the ability to wake up upon receiving a ring from a phone call, usually done by hooking a modem to the computer’s serial port and activitating the wake on ring feature in the BIOS (see Wake On Ring on Wikipedia for more on this).

The main difference lies in the manner that the calls are received. In present motherboards, the signal comes from a landline call, while Intel’s new motherboards will wake up on calls coming from the Internet (via wired Ethernet connection). Also, for security reasons, your computer will only respond to calls that you have defined, preventing prank callers from activitating your PC.

While this is a upcoming feature for Intel desktop PCs, I have been enjoying the same feature on HP Servers using the iLo function. For now, let’s wait and see what Intel’s new remote wake up motherboards has to offer.

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