"Power On By RTC" - how does this technically work?

jb7

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Hello

I need to automatically turn on my PC every morning to perform some maintenance tasks. My motherboard (Asus Z87 Deluxe) has this "Power On By RTC" feature which I am exploring to do this

I was wondering how this worked if the PC was turned off. By enabling this feature, does my PC only 'sleep' when I turn it off.. and then this wakes it up?

Or, is the PC actually fully shut down..and this feature wakes it up. How is that technically possible if the PC is completely turned off?

Thanks
 
Looking at wiki, it seems to suggest it’s like WoL so the PC will be off and the BIOS will turn it on.

Have you read the manual for the board?
 
I have my pc to wake up from sleep early every morning to back up files, using synctoy and task scheduler. I think task scheduler can turn on the pc aswel to perform tasks.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Looking at wiki, it seems to suggest it’s like WoL so the PC will be off and the BIOS will turn it on.

Have you read the manual for the board?
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Yep I had a look in there but it doesn't explain how it works. What I don't get is how can the PC turn on if it's powered off? Since the PC is definitely off, and not in a 'sleep' state

Phil2008 said:
I have my pc to wake up from sleep early every morning to back up files, using synctoy and task scheduler. I think task scheduler can turn on the pc aswel to perform tasks.
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Isn't that more of a 'wake from sleep' rather than 'wake from off' ?

EDIT: Did some more digging. It is something to do with standby 5V power in the PSU
 
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