PME Event Wake Up

[enapoleone]

Can anyone tell me what PME Event Wake Up under Power Management in CMOS is?

Furthermore can you tell me why it causes my system to instantly reboot
after I shut it down.

[jodster]

"PME Event Wake Up under Power Management " allows you to use a "power
manager" to control how your system shuts down . . .or when it will start
up. An "event wakeup" is basically what it says it is . . something that
triggers a computer to turn itself on.
By enabling or disabling "PME Event Wake Up under Power Management ", you
allow the power manager to control or NOT control your computer shutdowns or
start up's. Some settings allow energy-saver features to be activated (BIOS
shuts down video card after a half hour or HDD spins down after a preset
time), others allow your computer' power manager to "wake-up" the computer
from an off state on an 'event' such as a call to it's modem.
in theory, you could go on a trip for a month, have your computer in a
power-off state, and a call into your external modem would turn your
computer on . . .allowing you to network with it remotely.
In a nutshell . . .this setting will disable or enable your power manager.
It's all in your BIOS Manual. Read it.

Cheers,

jodster

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[enapoleone]

Jodster

First of all thank you for telling what it does. Though you did not touch on
why, when the setting is enabled, it restarts my computer right after I
manually shut it down. And furthermore you are only assuming, I would guess,
that my BIOS manual explains what it does. In my BIOS manual it simply says:
The default setting for PME Event Wake Up is Enabled.

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post. You were after all the
only one. *smile*

napoleon

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[R.B. Thomas]

I have to second that! My manual only tells what the different choices
are and not what they do. The MB manuals I've seen are written for techs
and not for do-it-yourselfers. It kind of makes me wonder why they even
put them in the package. The techs already know and they don't explain
it to the rest of us.