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I have Windows 7 64-bit and have done all the steps necessary to set up Wake-on-LAN. I then shut the computer down and tried to wake it. Nothing happened.

If I manually turn on the computer, it displays:

Magic packet received successfully

It seems that the computer receives the magic packet, but isn't woken up by it. I have changed all of my settings to allow Wake-on-LAN. Everything seems to be configured correctly, but the actual waking does not work.

How can I get this working?

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Do your motherboard and NIC support wake on lan? – soandos Dec 11 '11 at 10:09
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all the steps necessary

Since you didn't list them, we can't verify this. There usually are 3 components to this.

  1. The hardware must support it (Ethernet card with cable to motherboard WOL socket, or motherboard embedded Ethernet card with WOL)
  2. There is usually a BIOS setting that needs to be set before anything downstream will function.
  3. Settings in the network card setup accessed through Control Panel to look for Magic Packet and the various other iterations that can be used for WOL.
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Look at this article for detailed wake on lan configuration - http://rshut.com/kb/tech/wakeonlan.php

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