Beelink S12 Pro Auto Power on after power loss

IMLizKing

Hey Folks! I just acquired 8 Beelink Intel Mini S12 Pros and am setting them up. One feature that I see to be unable to find in the BIOS settings is a way to have the machines automatically turn on after power is lost and then restored. Usually there is an option for the state after power applied to be: Off, Last State, and On.

Is this an oversight in the BIOS or am I missing / not finding the setting?

Thanks much for any info!

IMLizKing

Just a quick update: I did find a workaround for this. I use the RTC wake-up in interval mode to wake the machine up using 1 minute intervals. It appears that if I shutdown, and optionally remove power and then reapply, it does wake up shortly thereafter. So I think things will work well enough for me as is, but I am still curious if I’m just missing that option in the BIOS menus!

support1

IMLizKing Hi there,

Here is the tutorial https://buildin.ai/lizong/59bf79eb-6be3-4875-88f8-ae1c63e78467

IMLizKing

Thanks much! Yeah, I just noticed that this tutorial is already on the hard drive under C:\Power_On_and_WOL.

To be clear (to help others), go under Chipset, selecting PCH-IO Configuration.
Then change the State After G3 to the S0 State
Save and all should work as expected (but test it to make sure)

The confusion here is that I these power states are not quite “human readable”. E.g. S0 is powered on, and S5 is “off” but ready to turn on by the power button press. And G3 is probably a total power loss..

support1

IMLizKing Thanks for your sharing.