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Whether your HTPC's NIC wakes it up by a magic packet (or pattern or whatever) or not solely depends on
1. its BIOS settings and
2. its settings in the Window device manager.
Any changes there, maybe an unwanted BIOS reset?
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No, I didn't change anything.
WOL still works perfectly if I use my "old" Frodo version. So I thought, there must be something changed with shutdown process in Helix (maybe some deeper shutdwn!? sorry, I'm no expert in that kind of stuff^^).
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Sorry, with Gotham I meant Frodo - never used Gotham.
Yes, I have two installations (Frodo and Helix Alpha 4) on my HTPC (both use their own Database, settings etc. pp., so there are no interruptions between these two versions).
I usually send the magic packet through my Smartphone (WOL App or directly through the FritzBox Router user inerface).
Frodo and Helix both use the "shutdown" function, if I press shutdown in the button menu - I just looked at "power saving".
I'm on Windows 8, don't know if that matters!?
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Yes if I shutdown from Frodo the HTPC will wake up, if I send a magic packet, but not if I shutdown from Helix. Don't know what u mean by "hybrid shutdown". I always shutdown from inside XBMC/Kodi.
I read some articles, and they say I have to check "Fast Boot" in Windows power saving options. I indeed have that enabled. With disabled Fast Boot, WOL works now with Helix. Don't know what that does and why I can use WOL in Frodo with Fast Boot enabled. However, now it works^^
Thanks for u re help.
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Since Win 8 the OS doesn't completly shutdown if you tell it to do so.
Instead Win 8 will unload your profile, but it will hibernate the entire OS and services and drivers (and their states) onto your harddisk.
The next time you fire it up, Win 8 just will read its system state from that hibernation file and reload your profile.
Maybe there's a culprit in the way Helix is handled then - nevertheless, I know Win 8 myself, and first thing I always do is disabling hibernation.
(tipp: to do this, open an elevated cmd and type "powercfg -h off" - this will also delete the hibernation file from your hdd and will work for any user on this pc)
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Fry
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