ASROCK Fatal1ty X370 Wake Up On Lan FAILURE

Hey MisterJ,

No damn luck on this one. 
i removed the device.
Uninstalled the drivers.
Verified they where not around in any Windows Directory.
Rebooted the system and the adapter was not there.

installed the downloaded drivers.
Setup the options in the adpater for WOL.

NADA, Nothing, Zilch,

Turned on the VLAN Monitor set it to Enabled.

NADA, Nothing, Zilch,


Man I am lost now.  The lights are on for the Adapter when the machine is off.
I proved the router is sending the WOL packet.
What is left ????????????????

MisterJ,

I have no idea if this means anything. I DISABLED all the ACPI settings in BIOS.
I shut the machine down. The light for Lan Adapter was still on. If ACPI is turned
off how can there be power to the card when off.

What setting is causing that ????

If the light is on when these setting are off how do you know if the right settings for
WOL are turned on.  I am use to only having the light on when the WOL settings are
correct.

dejianr wrote: Thanks kerberos_20, As defined in the spreadsheet settings on page one I have tried every setting here that you can try to no avail.  It will  not wake up on lan.

but reading further down ull get to user comments:
Ticking the option "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" instructs Windows 10 to cut the power of the network adapter and therefore there will be zero power on the ethernet port. If your computer is connected to the internet through a so-called 'home plug' (aka as IP over Power), zero power on the ethernet port may activate the internal power saving protocol of the Home Plug and switch it off. From then on it will be impossible for the magic packet to reach the system and have the network adapter starting it up.

dejianr, I should have said earlier that I do not use WOL and do not have any reason to believe the Aquantia drivers will correct your situation.  I do know this adapter requires the drivers from Aquania for extensive problems experienced in the beginning.  I do not know if you found the threads talking about this, but the bottom line was to get rid of the ASRock modified drivers.  Interestingly it is just the opposite on the Aquantia 10 Gbps NIC on the X399 MBs.  The Aquantia gets no connection with the vendor driver and seems to work fine with the ASRock driver.  I suspect you will have much better luck with the Intel NIC.  It has a great reputation. Enjoy, John.

dejinar,

Somthing's definitely off here. You NEED to verify WoL/magic packets are arriving at the desired NIC. Only then it makes sense to continue troubleshooting. Thus far I'm seeing 3 pages of 'drivers, drivers, drivers'. Well, I'm not giving you attitude or something, but I'm yet to see a WoL issue with default drivers and settings. It's just works out of the box.

Easiest way to verify if your NIC is receiving magic (packets) - boot some Linux Live USB, run tcpdump. Here is a good guide on TCPDUMP https://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/ I even took it a bit further; you can use this directly tcpdump -i any -nttttXvvve

After starting the tcpdump, go to your router and try sending the magic (packets) to the sniffing machine.

A few other things - I saw someone mentioned VLANs, if you don't have a clue what that is, do not mess with it! From what I gather you have a very simple network topology.

And yet another thing - you won't get any miracles running your 5Gbps card in a 1Gbps network. Any decent router/switch (I personally won't put your ASUS there) should do 1Gbps with decent NIC (your Intel one is a good example) and decent cabling.