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Bad BIOS!

In my quest to get my motherboard (Gigabyte S-series GA-MA790FX-DS5) to wake-on-LAN, I tried upgrading the BIOS from Gigabyte’s download site from version F6 to version F8F. Bad idea! After the upgrade, the system would sometimes reboot spontaneously. This seemed … Continue reading

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Stir-on-LAN

I got Wake-on-LAN almost working on my desktop computer. It took some trial and error, but here are the essential steps: I configured my Gigabyte S-series GA-MA790FX-DS5 motherboard BIOS to have PME Event set to enabled; this enables wake-on-LAN which … Continue reading

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