Pen wrote:

> 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),
Thanks. Will post this there.

>> 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.
> There is ba Dell group at
> alt.sys.pc-clone.dell