Re: No weekly BIOS boot after upgrade to Windows 10.

Jeff,

So, a few years back BIOS got replaced with something called UEFI. I'm
fuzzy on the details (but google will help). I'm pretty sure Windows 10
forces UEFI. The main advantages of UEFI are as follows:


- Cryptography ensures that your Windows kernel is genuine and not
compromised (google knows more than me about the details). You can turn
this off to boot linux, but then again Redhat and Ubuntu might have gotten
their kernels signed.
- Your machine doesn't have to emulate an 8088 processor, and we can
stop showhorning all kinds of newfangled storage into booting of a BIOS.

The bad news in your case seems to be that your bios scheduled wake up
thing doesn't work.

Pragmatically speaking, try to update your UEFI, its not that difficult or
dangerous anymore. You can usually do it from windows instead of making a
dos disk. Of course you will have to reboot. Also, you might want to do a
wake on lan thing instead. Enable wake on lan and have one server wake your
workstations up. This is also great if you have to push out a patch over
the weekend, or just remotely connect to a machine that is shut down.

Regards,

Justin Dearing

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 8:25 AM Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

All,

Got a weird one, I think.

We have 3 Lenovo ThinkCentre desktops that were on Win 7. In the BIOS, I
have them set to boot up Sunday evening. This has worked for the 2-3 years
we've had them.

I upgraded them to Windows 10. Now they don't boot on Sunday night, we
have to hit the power button Monday morning. What effect would a change in
the OS have on the BIOS?

I have double checked and each has the correct date/time in the BIOS. And
double checked they're all still set to boot Sunday evening. They just
don't.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Jeff Crosby
VP Information Systems
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

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company. Unless I say so.
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