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Instructing Win2K to start itself from a remote terminal. WREY10-Jul-02 7:41 WREY 10-Jul-02 7:41  Does anyone know how to start Win2K from a remote machine without physically turning the machine on? (Yes, the machine is plugged in, and electricity is flowing to it at all times.) It might sound crazy, but if you can shut your machine down without physically turning it OFF, why wouldn't you be able to do the opposite and start it up, without physically turning it ON? I'm talking something almost similar to hibernating, in which the machine turns itself on at a certain time you had instructed it to do so. This, however, is for it to turn itself on upon receiving instruction to do so from a remote terminal. Might there be something in the BIOS you can activate to do this? William Re: Instructing Win2K to start itself from a remote terminal. Venet11-Jul-02 4:17 Venet 11-Jul-02 4:17  WREY wrote: It might sound crazy, but if you can shut your machine down without physically turning it OFF, why wouldn't you be able to do the opposite and start it up, without physically turning it ON? Good point WREY wrote: Might there be something in the BIOS you can activate to do this? Nope, it has to do with the network card. There are types of Network Cards that can remotely turn on PC (of course this needs to be supported by the BIOS as well). Technology is called WakeupOnLan. It is based by sending a special packet (MAGIC PACKET) to your NIC and it will turn on the computer. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Instructing Win2K to start itself from a remote terminal. WREY11-Jul-02 6:50 WREY 11-Jul-02 6:50  Thanks! I appreciate it. William Microsoft exe and MZ John Wheater8-Jul-02 1:50 John Wheater 8-Jul-02 1:50  I notice that (in Win200 at least) the check on the 1st 2 bytes of an exe being 'MZ' does not take place. Anything known? Re: Microsoft exe and MZ Venet8-Jul-02 22:50 Venet 8-Jul-02 22:50  It does on my win2k machine. I just changed MZ header and file turned into MS-DOS executable. .EXE files on windows are PE files and therefore should adhere to the standard specified. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Microsoft exe and MZ John Wheater9-Jul-02 0:55 John Wheater 9-Jul-02 0:55  Venet, thanks, but what I meant was that if you change the MZ (which appears in all exes) to, say, XX, then it still runs. There was a time when the OS complained if this signature was not present. Re: Microsoft exe and MZ Venet9-Jul-02 4:07 Venet 9-Jul-02 4:07  Sorry for misunderstanding. John Wheater wrote: There was a time when the OS complained if this signature was not present. What OS was this ? Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Microsoft exe and MZ John Wheater9-Jul-02 23:25 John Wheater 9-Jul-02 23:25  Not really an OS, rather DOS Changing Boot Disc James Spibey5-Jul-02 22:53 James Spibey 5-Jul-02 22:53  I've a Windows 2000 Server which currently has two phyiscal hard disks. The partitons look a little like this:- Disk 1 (60GB) ======= c:\ 2GB (used to be Win98) Boot Partition d:\ 30GB (mirrored onto disk 2) e:\ 10GB (Windows 2000 Server System Partition) f:\ 18GB (stuff) Disk 2 (30GB) ======== 30GB mirror of d:\ What I want to do is copy d:\ to a new 60GB disk, use Disk 2 as the system boot partition, and then mirror my new 60GB disk onto the current disk 1. Is is imperitive that the Windows 2000 installation is not corrupted in any way as it runs my entire network. Can anyone give any pointers about the best way to do this? I can get access to Partition Magic if needs be. Re: Changing Boot Disc Venet6-Jul-02 0:17 Venet 6-Jul-02 0:17  Using Ghost maybe ? Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) BIOS? Peter Molnar4-Jul-02 11:33 Peter Molnar 4-Jul-02 11:33  Hi, I wanna install a new version of Windows (W2k) but I encountered a problem. During installation after copying files from the CD-ROM to the hard disk the computer needs a restart. This is normal. What is not normal is that after the restart the installation begins from the very beginning with copying files to the hard disk again. I suspect (but I may be wrong) that the BIOS settings are wrong. I tried CD-ROM and hard disk as first and second boot devices but the same problem persists. Could somebody give me please a pointer? Thanks Bunburry Re: BIOS? Joshua Nussbaum4-Jul-02 15:33 Joshua Nussbaum 4-Jul-02 15:33  take out the cd before the computer restarts. That way it doesn't boot from the hd (not cdrom). Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar4-Jul-02 15:48 Peter Molnar 4-Jul-02 15:48  I tried that before but the only thing I got was a message: system failure. This is all about a new computer and I can't install a f#&@ing windows... Bunburry Re: BIOS? Joshua Nussbaum4-Jul-02 15:56 Joshua Nussbaum 4-Jul-02 15:56  are you sure that bios is configured to boot from hd0? Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar4-Jul-02 16:11 Peter Molnar 4-Jul-02 16:11  I tried every possibility: hdd-0, hdd-1,hdd-2, cd-rom as first boot device, but still system failure... Bunburry Re: BIOS? Joshua Nussbaum4-Jul-02 16:13 Joshua Nussbaum 4-Jul-02 16:13  no, what I'm saying is set up like this boot0: cdrom boot1: hdd0 this way it will boot from cd if a bootable cd is in the drive, and when no bootable cd is present it will boot the os from the hd. Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar4-Jul-02 16:20 Peter Molnar 4-Jul-02 16:20  This is called first, second and third boot device on my system. I also tried first boot - cd-rom second boot - hdd-0 and vice versa with and without inserted cd, but still the same message. Bunburry Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar4-Jul-02 16:33 Peter Molnar 4-Jul-02 16:33  ...and I also know that this configuration works because Win2K was preinstalled by the dealer some hours ago and all OK. I just wanted to have more partitions by reinstalling windows. If only I had known this a little earlier I would have been satisfied with one... Bunburry Re: BIOS? Venet5-Jul-02 1:29 Venet 5-Jul-02 1:29  Bunburry wrote: I just wanted to have more partitions by reinstalling windows. How many partitions do you have ? Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: BIOS? Brian Delahunty5-Jul-02 2:30 Brian Delahunty 5-Jul-02 2:30  Venet wrote: How many partitions do you have ? Your obsessed with partitions. We'll have to have a look at that. Hey. Can you come down to my flat tomorrow night for Robson's 21st??? For a few drinks anyway??? "When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks] "It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9 Re: BIOS? Venet5-Jul-02 4:37 Venet 5-Jul-02 4:37  Brian Delahunty wrote: Can you come down to my flat tomorrow night for Robson's 21st??? Was out last night with the college crowd. Today in bits, room is fu**ing spining, and me trying to create a presentation. Nasty I have lots of work to do, but do say hi to Robson. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar5-Jul-02 3:40 Peter Molnar 5-Jul-02 3:40  First I installed 3 but when I saw the problems I deleted them and returned to 1. Without any effect. BTW: I am abstinent... Bunburry Re: BIOS? Roger Wright5-Jul-02 4:23 Roger Wright 5-Jul-02 4:23  Bunburry wrote: BTW: I am abstinent... There's your problem! Before I could bring myself to install Win2K Beta3 I had to get roaring drunk. It worked perfectly! The latest machine (Win2K SP2) I installed cold sober, and have had no end of troubles There are three types of people in the world: Those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; those who wonder what happened. Re: BIOS? Peter Molnar5-Jul-02 4:38 Peter Molnar 5-Jul-02 4:38  ...and those who wonder why that happened Bunburry Re: BIOS? Venet5-Jul-02 4:44 Venet 5-Jul-02 4:44  Bunburry wrote: BTW: I am abstinent... Whatever that is. Anyway, at first I thought you might be installing Windows on secondary partition, and some versions of windows need to be installed in primary partition. But AFAIK this is true for Win95/98 only. My suggestion would be: Get a Win95/98 startup disk. Use fdisk utilty to delete all partitions, format them all and try to reinstall Win2k. You might want to try to use "fdisk /mbr" as well which will restore Master Boot Record. Apart from this I have no idea. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)

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