On 9/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">A JM</b> <<a href="mailto:vbtalent@gmail.com">vbtalent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Craig,<br><br>The WOR, seems to be a starting point and after reading your post am I to assume that in a standby situation the USB ports are supplied with a 5v source? which in turn could be used to turn on the system if I was going to try the WOR?
<br><br></blockquote></div>Maybe. You would have to either:<br> A) RTFM that came with the laptop<br> B) Play detective and figure out what motherboard is in the laptop and search the web for it's fine manual<br>searching these to figure out whether the USB ports always have +5Vsb or if a jumper has to be in the right position.
<br>If the latter, you'd have to take the alternative approach below or open up the case to see if the jumper is in the right position -- note that there may even be more than one jumper. I have a motherboard with jumpers for each pair of USB ports.
<br><br>**Alternately**, you could just do a test to see if power is present with the system in standby/hibernation -- either plug in a USB device that indicates when it has power, or use a voltmeter to probe a USB port.
<br><br>HTH,<br><br>Craig.<br>