Hello,
I'm a non-technical guy so this is something that doesn't come easy to me like it does to many of you.
Basically, I have a computer in my closet that runs 10 hard drives. It's on all the time and only about 5 people access it throughout the day. In an average day, it sits idle for 18 hours and its hard to physically turn the PC on and off for one person here because he is in a wheechair. The problem is, it's costing me nearly $100 a month just to run the darn thing. I would like to put the computer into standby or even shut it down when I'm not using it and single wake it up when someone needs to use it.
However, I have no idea how to do this. The computer is a home built computer. Abit NF7, XP 2500+, 512MB of ram, 10 HD, windows XP SP2. I have no idea what to do in the BIOS or windows to get this to work.
Can someone help me find a freeware application and a step by step on how to do this? I'm really desperate to get this done. I read this: http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/ and I also tried using http://www.dirfile.com/advanced_ip_scanner.htm to get it start again, but it just does not work.
please help me, I am desperate
I'm a non-technical guy so this is something that doesn't come easy to me like it does to many of you.
Basically, I have a computer in my closet that runs 10 hard drives. It's on all the time and only about 5 people access it throughout the day. In an average day, it sits idle for 18 hours and its hard to physically turn the PC on and off for one person here because he is in a wheechair. The problem is, it's costing me nearly $100 a month just to run the darn thing. I would like to put the computer into standby or even shut it down when I'm not using it and single wake it up when someone needs to use it.
However, I have no idea how to do this. The computer is a home built computer. Abit NF7, XP 2500+, 512MB of ram, 10 HD, windows XP SP2. I have no idea what to do in the BIOS or windows to get this to work.
Can someone help me find a freeware application and a step by step on how to do this? I'm really desperate to get this done. I read this: http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/ and I also tried using http://www.dirfile.com/advanced_ip_scanner.htm to get it start again, but it just does not work.
please help me, I am desperate