Daryl J. Davey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently acquired a Dell Poweredge 2400 servers, which I have been playing
> with setting up.
>
> Everything seems to work fine except the server originally kept powering
> itself on at 22:40 each day.
>
> I couldn't find any settings in THE BIOS screens to change this behaviour
> and eventually managed to find (via Google) that this is contolled by
> something called the SMBIOS, which is not accessible through the normal
> BIOS screens at startup but instead via the Dell Client Configuration
> Utility (DCCU).
>
> I duly downloaded and ran this and it gave access to three settings, AutoOn
> (which seems to have settings of disabled, every day or weekdays),
> AutoOnHour and AutoOnMinute. On setting these however, the machine doesn't
> power on at the time chosen (or indeed automatically at all now, not even
> at 22:40 as before).
>
> So I have partially solved the problem in that the machine doesn't power up
> at 22:40 each day but I would like it to make use of this facility to power
> up at 06:00 each day instead.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with setting this up on this type (or
> similar) servers?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Daryl.
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