Help enabling wake on lan for Sabertooth Z77 motherboard

right click on the desktop's ethernet driver under device manger and then go to properties then select Advance...

there you would find something that says Wake on Lan or Wakeup capablities... or even magic packet.... its usually disabled by default.... so you would need to enable it and see...

That's the first thing I tried.

Hi Rob,

I have just set mine up and not changed anything in BIOS and is fully working..However mine is the AMD 990fx Version.

Did you set up your routers port forwarding ?

No, I haven't. Can you let me know how you did it?

Sure..

What you will need to do is make sure your network adapter is enabled for WOL which im assuming is done..
Then you will need to get your IP Address and MAC Address from the PC your going to wake..
Open a Command Promt on the computer.. Go to Start button and type cmd then enter..
Type ipconfig /all Then press enter..
you will need this info from your adapter..
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Ok so we have our currently assigned IP address 192.168.1.2..
next we need to get access to your router which is the gateway address..so open a web browser and type the default gateway address in the address bar and press enter.. login to your router.

What you need to be looking for is port forwarding and set up a new custom service/rule.
rule will be
NAME WOL
PROTOCOL UDP
STARTING PORT 9
ENDING PORT 9
SERVER IP ADDRESS 192.168.1.2

This is based on the application your going to use to wake and using the port number 9..check that as it could be 7 ?

Ok we have set that up we need to make sure your router always gives your PC that address of 192.168.1.2..
So we need to look for within your router something like LAN Setup or Address reservation.
When you find that just look for your address 192.168.1.2 and click add to reservation or new reservation or something it depends what router your using what it will be...
Once you have done that take a note of your MAC address when reserving as this is what details you need to wake the pc within your application..
I use a iphone app called wake.. its free and easy to setup by supplying the IP MAC and port number 9..

Ok once all is done turn your pc off and test buddy... if your struggling with the router let me know what router it is and ill se if i can help further..

hope this helps and gets you running..

Jonny

Even without the port opened I've been able to wake the computer from S3 (sleep). I opened the port, but was still unable to wake the computer from S5 (Shutdown). I'm not sure why this is.

Here's the specifics of how I'm waking it:

Mac Address: My mac address
IP: 192.168.1.1 (my router/gateway address)
Port: 7 (which is open and forwarded to this computer)

The IP in the program should be the IP of the computer your waking not the Gateway Address which you have above..:)

I thought that might be it, but I've tried it with both the gateway and the ip of the target.

Strange what program are you using to wake ?