T500 Wake on LAN on Windows 10 - SOLVED

[fje]

Hi, I own a T500 (2089-xxx) that I have been using for a while with Windows 7 32bits (didn't like some things of 64bits). I was able of do a "wake on Lan" over the internet without any problem.

Today I "updated" it to Windows 10 and tried if I was able to do similar thing and... result was... NO, I was not.

If I put the T500 in Hibernate state it works and wakes, but if I totally shutdown it (S5), the Ethernet adapter light switches off and no way to wake it. I looked at the driver and everything is OK, the 3 options (allow for power management, allow for wake the system and allow Magic Packet) are marked, as they were in Windows 7.

The network adapter is the Intel 82567LM Gigabit. The driver version is 10.1.9.0. I downloaded a general driver from Intel, much recent, from this year, and it adds some more functions to the driver properties dialog, but the driver version remains the same one and the results is again the same. On Switch off, the Etehernet leds switch off and no way to wake the laptop.

I also downloaded and installed the "Enable Wake onLan feature for Energy Star", but no way.....

Any idea of why it used to work on Windows 7 and it doesn't on Windows 10? Of course, the O.S. is different, but as far as I know, it was supposed to work.

Thanks for any help.

Javier

[dr_st]

Did you install the Intel PROSet suite?

Sometimes if you install it, there will be a separate checkbox - Allow Magic Packet Wake from S5, and it may resolve just this issue.

[fje]

Did you install the Intel PROSet suite?

Sometimes if you install it, there will be a separate checkbox - Allow Magic Packet Wake from S5, and it may resolve just this issue.

Hi, thanks for your answer. I feel Intel PROSet suite was the one I installed when I installed what I downloaded from Intel website. I remember that checkbox, but I feel it talked about S3 (???) not S5.

Anyway, as I still have the package, I will try to install it again and will come back here with result.

Thanks again

Javier

[fje]

Found it!

It is a matter of "Fast Start" option un Windows 10. Once it is deactivated, everything works as it used todo in Windows 7.

Thanks anyway.

Javier

[dr_st]

Ah, that's right.

I should have known this, because I actually worked with this before. "Fast start" on Win8+ is basically Hibernate with all wake-ups disabled.