[ASUS TUSL-L] Wake-on-ring cannot be disabled

[Patrick Philippot]

Hi,

I have an HP Pavilion the motherboard of which being an ASUS TUSL-L.
This motherboard has a wake-on-ring feature that cannot be disabled from
the BIOS configuration panel (an unforgivable design flaw, by the way) .
This is a real nuisance since I have to disconnect the modem cable when
I don't want the system to be powered on upon an incoming call. Neither
the HP web site nor the ASUS web site have technical information
available for this board. The HP support couldn't help.

I'm looking for a utility that could modify the CMOS flag managing this
feature (hoping it's not hard-wired) or at least, I'd like to find
enough technical information so that I could write this program myself.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Nikolaos Tampakis]

Hi,

I have an HP Pavilion the motherboard of which being an ASUS TUSL-L.
This motherboard has a wake-on-ring feature that cannot be disabled from
the BIOS configuration panel (an unforgivable design flaw, by the way) .
This is a real nuisance since I have to disconnect the modem cable when
I don't want the system to be powered on upon an incoming call. Neither
the HP web site nor the ASUS web site have technical information
available for this board. The HP support couldn't help.

I'm looking for a utility that could modify the CMOS flag managing this
feature (hoping it's not hard-wired) or at least, I'd like to find
enough technical information so that I could write this program myself.

Thanks in advance for any help.

The feature is not hardwired and there's a utility called modbin
circulating around that can unhide internal BIOS options the
manufacturer chose to conceal at production time.
I don't know how well modbin would work with an Asus BIOS though -
haven't tried anything myself but I recall it has been mentioned Asus
has its own way of setting things up in the BIOS.
Search for modbin or modbin6 IIRC. You will need an image file of your
BIOS too.

This is HP's page for the board (codenamed Hudson):
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=bph07230
not very useful but it exists.
It looks like a TUSL2-M variant but I wouldn't flash the BIOS for that
one in it.

Regards
Nikos

 

[Patrick Philippot]

Thanks for the details, Nikos.