The Intel® PROSet Power Management tab replaces the standard Microsoft* Windows* Power Management tab in Device Manager. It includes the Power Saver and Wake on LAN* (WoL*) options that were previously included on the Advanced tab. The standard Windows power management functionality is incorporated on the Intel PROSet tab.
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The Intel PROSet Power Management tab includes several settings that control the adapter's power consumption. For example, you can set the adapter to reduce its power consumption if the cable is disconnected.
If Reduce speed during standby is enabled, then Wake on Magic Packet and/or Wake on directed packet must be enabled. If both of these options are disabled, power is removed from the adapter during standby. Wake on Magic Packet from power off state has no effect on this option
The ability to remotely wake computers is an important development in computer management. This feature has evolved over the last few years from a simple remote power-on capability to a complex system interacting with a variety of device and operating system power states. More details are available here.
Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista* and Windows Server* 2003 are ACPI-capable. These operating systems do not support wake from a power-off (S5) state, only from standby (S3) or hibernate (S4). When shutting down the system, they shutdown ACPI devices, including Intel adapters. This disarms the adapters remote wake up capability. However, in some ACPI-capable computers, the BIOS may have a setting that allows you to override the operating system and wake from an S5 state anyway. If there is no support for wake from S5 state in your BIOS settings, you are limited to Wake From Standby when using these operating systems in ACPI computers.
For some adapters, the Power Management tab in Intel PROSet includes a setting called Wake on Magic Packet from power off state. Enable this setting to explicitly allow wake up with a Magic Packet* from shutdown under APM power management mode.
In ACPI-capable versions of Windows, the Intel PROSet Power Management tab includes Wake on Magic Packet and Wake on directed packet settings. These controls the type of packets that wake up the system from standby.
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