Howdy Folks,

      I'm hoping someone out there can help me out with a recommendation for a motherboard with the following characteristics:

• works with WOL - Wake on LAN - S3 - by works I mean that I can power down or suspend the system and bring it back with a magic-packet
  
• supports intel Core 2 Duo (E6600)
  
• "just works" with unRAID - ie no having to muck around within the BIOS to trick it to boot from fake floppies etc
  
• has a reasonable number of SATA connectors built into the MB
  
• has an inbuilt graphics card / GPU - don't care what - only so that it boots into unRAID aok
  

 

I already have 1 unRAID system - with 6 drives (Pro key). It fails to WOL or S3. The MB does wake on lan when it had windaz on it - and I put it back on (reconnected old OS drive). It has the "g" for WOL enabled for the NIC in the eth info but the problem is that the power is totally off - no light on the NIC or anywhere else on the MB so I am looking for a replacement motherboard.

 

I have gone through the recommended motherboard list (the officially supported ones - not available any more - even the newest one here in Australia) as well as the ones with the varying 3 levels of support - x months of running, multiple large drives , large data transfers etc and there isn't a column for WOL, S3 etc

 

So does anyone have an unRAID system as above - works with S3 / WOL?

 

Thanks

      belorion

Take a look in this thread to get an idea of what people are using WOL with there boards.

 

This WOL subject was actually brought up by another user who thought it should be added to the Hardware Compatibility Page.  I will probably start working out how to best do without over crowding the current table.

Thanks for that prostuff1 :-)

 

I went through the entire thread and only found 2 motherboards referenced (directly - listed by folks, their signature or indirectly through other posts by the users who were trying to ge the S3 stuff work)

 

ASUS P5LD2-VM - is no longer available (at least anywhere within Australia)

Foxconn A7GM-S AMD 780G/SB700 b is an AMD board so it's of no use to me.

 

I guess I will keep looking.

After some more reverse searching on folks who were interested in S3 suspend etc I only found details for a couple more working MBs

 

Gigabyte EP43-U3DL COre 2 (no integrated graphics)

 

Supermicro X7SLA-H Atom 330

 

ciao

    belorion

I'm using the Intel DQ45EK.  WOL works without a problem.  It boots from USB ok, but the bios hangs for about 30 seconds while doing it.  I plan on contacting Intel support to see what they suggest.  Other than that, it's been a good board.  It has only 4 sata ports though.  I'm using one for my parity.  The rest of my drives are in a Sans Digital box.

My dev box is a Biostar TA690G AM2 .... been suspending and waking for months flawlessly.