G1.Sniper A88X: Where is the Wake On Lan option in BIOS?

[darwusch]

Hi,
I can not enable Wake on LAN in the device manager, the function "allow this device to wake the computer" is greyed out.
Mostly, this is due to a wrong BIOS setting. But which one?

Using the G1.Sniper A88X as follows:
Windows 8.1 x64 fresh install
Drivers from gigabyte: chipset and LAN

BIOS version F8a
ErP is set to disabled, otherwise it would never work.
It seems the WOL setting is missing in the BIOS...
(with ErP disabled, I would expect a "PME event wake" option to appear, but it does not)

Who knows how to enable Wake on LAN?

[-Andy-]

Hi,

Exactly the same problem here with a GA-F2A88XM-D3H. Tried a lot of realtek drivers too

Please help us out??!!

[mikeyb5753]

there's no option in BIOS to enable as it is permanently enabled.  you can enable/disable through your OS

[-Andy-]

Can you guide us which settings? Because the settings of the nic are tje same as on my GA-Z77X-UD4H and on that board it's working perfect. Thanks!

[darwusch]

See attached screenshot to make it clear.
The onboard LAN is Realtek 8168 which has WOL.
Also I tried drivers from the Gigabyte site as well as from Microsoft and Realtek.
But it does not work.

[-Andy-]

Same in Win7 x64, see att in Dutch. Must be a BIOS issue.

[mikeyb5753]

click on the advanced tab and enable WOL magic packet and WOL pattern match.  then the tickbox will not be greyed out

[-Andy-]

These were enabled already still no luck. Thanks

[mikeyb5753]

i have almost identical board and works fine for me.  try the official drivers from gb site

[-Andy-]

Already tried the GB one and many others. Looks like we have to buy a pci-e NIC to get WOL working...

[darwusch]

i have almost identical board and works fine for me.  try the official drivers from gb site

Maybe for you it works because you have another cpu.
And are you using win 8.1 x64 ?

[mikeyb5753]

the cpu is irrelevant.

i've got win8 x64.

it also worked fine with win7 x64

[-Andy-]

We are not dealing with an OS dependent, BIOS setting or NIC setting issue. Root cause must be a incomplete BIOS by Gigabyte. I'm going to raise an incident/ticket with my complete configuration overview. If it can't be solved within a week, this board is going back.

[darwusch]

Mikey, can you post the content of the following registry key?

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000

On my pc it is as follows:

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000]
"*SpeedDuplex"="0"
"ForceMode"="0"
"AutoDisableGigabit"="0"
"*PriorityVLANTag"="3"
"*InterruptModeration"="1"
"*ReceiveBuffers"="512"
"*TransmitBuffers"="128"
"*JumboPacket"="1514"
"*IPChecksumOffloadIPv4"="3"
"*TCPChecksumOffloadIPv4"="3"
"*UDPChecksumOffloadIPv4"="3"
"S5WakeOnLan"="1"
"DeviceRemovable"="0"
"HwParaMask"=dword:00000000
"HwOptimize"=dword:00000000
"HwOption"=dword:00000000
"LogDisconnectEvent"="0"
"EnableEDT"="1"
"RIACP"="0"
"S5NicKeepOverrideMacAddr"="0"
"S5NicKeepOverrideMacAddrV2"="1"
"PPSW"="1"
"S0MgcPkt"="0"
"HwFPSM"=dword:00000000
"SwIML"=dword:00000000
"ENPWMode"="0"
"Diskless"="0"
"DisklessOption"="0"
"TxOptimizeThreshold"=dword:00000000
"RxOptimizeThreshold"=dword:00000000
"CFHTime"=dword:00000000
"LDWTime"=dword:00000000
"RMPT"=dword:00000000
"CRSPDThreshold"=dword:00000000
"ComboPerfAdjust"="0"
"CHNLWTime"=dword:00000000
"CHNLWCnt"=dword:00000000
"L1L0sLT"=dword:00000000
"MRRSize"=dword:00000000
"TDBSize"=dword:ffffffff
"RDBSize"=dword:ffffffff
"HwOptionV2"=dword:00000000
"HwBpMask"=dword:00000000
"MonitorModeEnabled"="0"
"DisablePBA"="1"
"*TCPChecksumOffloadIPv6"="3"
"*UDPChecksumOffloadIPv6"="3"
"*RSS"="1"
"*LsoV2IPv4"="1"
"*LsoV2IPv6"="1"
"*WakeOnPattern"="1"
"*WakeOnMagicPacket"="1"
"*NumRssQueues"="4"
"WolShutdownLinkSpeed"="0"
"*PMARPOffload"="1"
"*PMNSOffload"="1"
"EEE"="1"
"EnableGreenEthernet"="1"
"EnumPropPages32"="rtnicprop64.dll,RTNicPropPageProvider"
"Characteristics"=dword:00000084
"ComponentId"="pci\\ven_10ec&dev_8168&rev_06"
"NetCfgInstanceId"="{2E1E77AD-838E-4CBB-8A87-2308F4E138F1}"
"InstallTimeStamp"=hex:de,07,01,00,02,00,1c,00,14,00,01,00,21,00,74,00
"*IfType"=dword:00000006
"IfTypePreStart"=dword:00000006
"*MediaType"=dword:00000000
"*PhysicalMediaType"=dword:0000000e
"NetLuidIndex"=dword:00000000
"DeviceInstanceID"="PCI\\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_E0001458&REV_06\\01000000684CE00000"
"BusType"="5"
"*FlowControl"="3"
"PowerDownPll"="1"
"InfPath"="oem11.inf"
"InfSection"="RTL8168E.ndi"
"InfSectionExt"=".NT"
"ProviderName"="Realtek"
"DriverDateData"=hex:00,40,2a,18,84,fb,ce,01
"DriverDate"="12-18-2013"
"DriverVersion"="8.24.1218.2013"
"MatchingDeviceId"="pci\\ven_10ec&dev_8168&rev_06"
"DriverDesc"="Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller"
"BiosSetting"=dword:00000000
"ASPM"=dword:00000000
"CLKREQ"=dword:00000001
"PnPCapabilities"=dword:00000018
"PBPFA"=dword:00000301
"HwPFA"=dword:00010000


[mikeyb5753]

that regkey come back with something completely different on mine, not nic settings.

also tried searching entire registry for one of the keys but couldn't find.

Have you tried enabling ErP in BIOS?