Auto Boot and Shutdown


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How do I set XP to auto boot my machine when the network is started up? The XP machine is the main machine i.e. connects to the internet - so how do I make it boot when the other machine is booted? Is it possible?

And, how do I make XP automatically shutdown when the other PC is switched off? - Providing the XP machine is not in use of course!

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Yes, thankyou found the feature but unfortunatly it doesn't work :( I think it would work if I had a room of PCs which were set to Boot when LAN is detected and one PC which connected these PCs to the network. So booting this one PC would boot all of the PCs in the room. Unfortunatly I want the PC to boot which is the main server so there is no network without this PC so there is thus no LAN! Should really of thought of that before I asked although I still would like to know about the shutdown option. Thankyou thought coz I found some other nice features in the Wake-Up section of my bios. :)

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no, Wake On Lan is what you need.

the way it works is as long as your puter is plugged in, network card monitor traffic, as soon as it detect "Magic Packet" it will turn on that computer.

what you need is make sure your server support and configured for Wake On Lan, and then find software/script that will send such Magic Packet.

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Do you need a router because his computer is networked using a crossover cable?

The first computer main one is the one with the ADSL modem (1)

The second computer is the computer connected using a crossovercable to Comp 1

He want comp 1 to turn on when his secondary computer is turned on and when the secondary computer is turned off he wants comp 1 to turn off automatically.

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