I found an article explaining how to have your computer automatically power on at specific times. For a few days it worked, but now it doesn't. What happened? The following are the instructions I used
"To automatically start your computer up at a specific time of day, you'll actually need to edit your BIOS settings. To do this:
Boot up your computer and enter your BIOS setup. Usually this involves pressing the Delete key as your computer boots (your computer should say Press DEL to Enter Setup or something similar as you turn it on).
Navigate to the Power Options. If your BIOS supports it, there should be a function for automatically starting up your computer at a certain time of day. Mine was called "Resume by Alarm", but yours might be called something different.
Enable that setting and set the time you want your computer to start every day. Save and Exit the BIOS, and your computer should follow that schedule from now on."
**The computer is and was also scheduled to shut down on its own as well.
The only things that might be causing problems.. 1. the motherboard was replaced, but I'm currently in BIOS and the settings appear to be the same 2. "auto power on date" is "15". Now it was the same before the motherboard was replaced but the computer powered on every day then.. I tried changing that to "1" but am unable. There's also an option for "auto power on mode" with options "select day" and "every day" [ahh!! So it seems like "select day" needs to be selected to change "auto power date"]
"To automatically start your computer up at a specific time of day, you'll actually need to edit your BIOS settings. To do this:
Boot up your computer and enter your BIOS setup. Usually this involves pressing the Delete key as your computer boots (your computer should say Press DEL to Enter Setup or something similar as you turn it on).
Navigate to the Power Options. If your BIOS supports it, there should be a function for automatically starting up your computer at a certain time of day. Mine was called "Resume by Alarm", but yours might be called something different.
Enable that setting and set the time you want your computer to start every day. Save and Exit the BIOS, and your computer should follow that schedule from now on."
**The computer is and was also scheduled to shut down on its own as well.
The only things that might be causing problems.. 1. the motherboard was replaced, but I'm currently in BIOS and the settings appear to be the same 2. "auto power on date" is "15". Now it was the same before the motherboard was replaced but the computer powered on every day then.. I tried changing that to "1" but am unable. There's also an option for "auto power on mode" with options "select day" and "every day" [ahh!! So it seems like "select day" needs to be selected to change "auto power date"]
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