Wake by RTC in Asus P8P67 Deluxe

I recently found out about this feature, but haven't quite got it to work for me yet. What I'm trying to do is get the PC to start by itself at a set time each morning, triggered by the Real Time Clock (RTC).

In Asus' EFI BIOS, this is accessed by clicking the Advanced/Exit button in the upper right of the screen, then selecting Advanced. In the Advanced screen, click the Advanced tab, go to the bottom and select APM. This brings up a menu to select the Day, Hour, Minute and Second for the RTC alarm.

I did a quick test and set it to come on after 10 mins or so, but it did not work. After F10 Save and reboot, then a normal shutdown, reboot again and shutdown to wait for the RTC to go off and do an auto-boot, but it didn't work.

Several things that may be problems I don't quite understand yet....the Day in the APM menu, is it the actual day of the month, or a delay in days? Also, I have read the system may not cycle to do the action until the day following setting this up.

I always leave the motherboard PSU on when shutting down, otherwise the RTC resets and this won't work. Anything I'm missing or not doing properly? I am running Windows 7-64.

Cold start. In the Advanced tab, I have enabled Power on by RTC under the APM menu and set a start time. This fails to start the system. When I start the system manually and go back into the BIOS to check the values I set, they are back at their default values. Not sure what's going on here. Looked at a copy of the MB manual online here, refer to pg. 90 tells what the function is supposed to do:

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I finally got the problem solved. The newer UEFI BIOS used by the P8P67 board is a lot more user-friendly than older versions. You can actually navigate the GUI with the mouse instead of using arrow keys and Enter to select items. Except in this particular case, for some obscure reason.

I found out when entering a value in the number fields of the APM Real Time Clock to set a start time, you can't use the mouse to select another field. If you do, the value you entered will be reset back to the default and your change will not be saved even if you F10 save. You must use only the up/down arrow keys to move from one field to the next when entering these values.

After an F10 Save and Exit, I went back to the BIOS and the saved change stayed in, and my test start-up time I put in worked perfectly, and will repeat until you change it.

For the Day, I entered 0 (runs every day) then an Hour/Minute/Second value in 24 hour format. I just like to have my PC waiting for me when I get up each morning. It's in my room, so when I hear it come on, it helps me wake up. Now if it only made breakfast....hmmmm, how do I set up a USB connection to the toaster oven...