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Wake on Lan with Optiplex 9020 with UEFI bios

Has anyone managed to get Wake on Lan working with a UEFI BIOS ? 

I have a Dell Optiplex 9020 that arrived with Windows 8 installed with a UEFI BIOS and I cannot get WOL to work from the K1000. All of the other 9020's that have Windows 7 installed run a legacy BIOS and they all work fine with WOL.

Asked 10 years ago 9763 views
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  • will it wake and not boot or just ignore the command all together - SMal.tmcc 10 years ago
  • No, it won't wake at all, the lights on the NIC are on when powered off so it should wake up - KiwiJJ 10 years ago
  • see if the bios version is different between the w7 and w8 machine. Also have you tried to switch the bios on a win7 to uefi and see if it will wake. It will not OS boot but will tell you if the wol is working on those in UEFI. - SMal.tmcc 10 years ago
  • I have tried changing the BIOS version to match the Win 7 machine, still no go. I will change a win 7 to UEFI if I can find one where someone is away and will let you know - KiwiJJ 10 years ago
  • Ok ... tried that and when set to UEFI it does not wake up but it does when changed back to BIOS. So obviously an issue with the UEFI implementation - KiwiJJ 10 years ago
  • If they all have the same version of bios I would contact dell on that, may be a bug in that bios that blocks it. You may have to back rev the bios even to get it to work, I see they list a current and 5 older versions for that model. - SMal.tmcc 10 years ago
  • Yeah .. I have already back rev'd the BIOS to the same as the Win 7 machine, I'll put a call into Dell and see what they say - KiwiJJ 10 years ago
  • we do not have any 9020's yet just 9010's so I can't play with one myself to see - SMal.tmcc 10 years ago
  • Does it work on the 9010's with UEFI ? - KiwiJJ 10 years ago
  • I just fought this with Optiplex 7040 and Latitude E6540. Make sure that "fast startup" is turned off in your Power Options.

    1. Control Panel
    2. Power Options
    3. Choose what the power buttons so (left margin)
    4. If the options are greyed out, click "Change settings that are currently unavailable" at the top
    5. Uncheck "Turn on fast startup (recommended) and save. - piobaireachd 7 years ago

Answers (2)

Posted by: mikedouglas 7 years ago
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What about choosing to "Block Sleep (S3 state)" in the BIOS? Should be a setting for that. BIOS is updated to the latest?
Posted by: SMal.tmcc 10 years ago
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This article may help

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19434669.aspx

Comments:
  • That was already set and still does not work - KiwiJJ 10 years ago

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