turn on a thinkpad without opening the screen-lid

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A-Ge0 · #1 Post by **A-Ge0** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:05 am

hello, is there a way other than wake-on-lan to turn on the laptop without opening the screen-lid? thank you.

danage · #2 Post by **danage** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:54 am

yes. the docks have a separate on/off switch.

A-Ge0 · #3 Post by **A-Ge0** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:58 am

thank you for your answer but,
unfortunately i do not have a dock and i don't like the idea of having one only for that feature,
does anyone know any other way?

#4 Post by **carbon_unit** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:05 am

I don't think there is any other way. You need a port replicator or a dock to get an external power button.

#5 Post by **RonS** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:12 am

You should be able to use the Wake-On-LAN feature (WOL). I'm pasting this from a listserv message: Waking a Computer Remotely with WOL:

You should first go into the system BIOS and enable WOL on the network adapter. Then, in order to wake a shut-down computer with WOL properly configured, you need a program that can send the proper packets over your network. The following programs do this:

a.. LANDesk Client Manager, revision 3.10 or later, by Intel. This
software comes with most WOL-compliant motherboards.

b.. Magic Packet by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). This software is a free download from AMD.

A-Ge0 · #6 Post by **A-Ge0** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:41 pm

I already know about Wake-on-lan and this is not what i am looking for, thank you.

once i had a motherboard that could turn on the pc (not ibm) when i pushed ctrl+F12 combination, is that possible somehow to a t41?
does anybody know?

#7 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:59 pm

There are a couple of "hacks" that I can think of which may get you an external button which will power on (or off) your system but they rely upon tapping into the signals from the docking port or modifying the keyboard. Both are inelegant solutions when you could simply use the port replicator that danage and carbon_unit suggested. Exactly why would that not work for you?

I understand what you mean by a keyboard sequence being able to turn on a computer. The old HP Vectra system here it work was designed to turn on by simply pressing the "space" bar (an aggravating 'feature' when it was accidentally invoked). That was something that could be enabled/disabled in the BIOS. I've never heard of a Thinkpad being able to do this, however.

nutjobox · #8 Post by **nutjobox** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:52 pm

A-Ge0 wrote:I already know about Wake-on-lan and this is not what i am looking for, thank you.

once i had a motherboard that could turn on the pc (not ibm) when i pushed ctrl+F12 combination, is that possible somehow to a t41?
does anybody know?

im confused, how would that help you? in any case, alt+f4 does that on my t40, yet its not entirely easy to hit those keys when the lid is closed...

A-Ge0 · #9 Post by **A-Ge0** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:28 pm

im confused, how would that help you? in any case, alt+f4 does that on my t40, yet its not entirely easy to hit those keys when the lid is closed...

reasonable confusion, but the answer is that i have an external keyboard and an external monitor and i would like to turn on the thinkpad without opening the lid and closing it right away.

nutjobox · #10 Post by **nutjobox** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:24 pm

ah, probably why alt+f4 doesnt work right? if i were you, because i like breaking perfectly working items, is to open the case and either solder on a wire pair to the keyboard somehow, or the power supply. or the button for power... thats really not good advice though

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