Thinkpads Forum

I would like to standby and resume one of my thinkpads using a timer.

I searched for utilities to do this and found two that sounds interesting:
http://www.dennisbabkin.com/php/download.php?what=WOSB
http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=dstools#wakeup

Unfortunately, none of them works, and I suspect the problem is in the thinkpads, as I can see a tentative, a flash on the power leds, but the half moon led remains on and the pc cold and dead

Does anyone of you already solved this issue?

As you have not listed which Thinkpad you are trying to "wake-up", this advice may not apply. In most recent systems, there's a BIOS setting which is supposed to wake the system (from standby I assume). If your system does contain such an entry (typically named "Resume on time") in the "Config/Power" section of the BIOS, play around with that and see if it does what you want.

Not sure about putting it into standby at a certain time....

I'm afraid I wasn't clear, but english is not my native language..

The only thing you need to resume a pc is a ACPI compliant system, asLenovo claims its Thinkpad are.

I used an utility, to give the wake on RTC signal, I posted the links.

I did the tests with X20, T42 and T60.

To tell the whole story, I tried the a.m. sw on T60 only, on the others I tried with different applications.

I didn't post this message in a specific forum as I thought is a general issue.