Q: Evening:
Is it possible to establish a timetable for the power of the server? I would like to switch on at 8:00 am and then off at midnight? Is this possible (SBS 2003 or a third-party program)?
I have no need for the server to run during the middle of the night (save electricity). Thanks!
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Are you sure the BIOS does not have a wake up time under power saving options page? Most desktop mobos have such settings, hard to imagine a server mobo not having these..
This is true, but you have to remember that server motherboards aren't designed for "desktop-style" uses – they're designed to start up and stay up indefinitely. Thus, the likelihood of having a "timed-on" function on a server board is remote at best.
Re:Are you sure the BIOS does not have a wake up time under power saving options page? Most desktop mobos have such settings, hard to imagine a server mobo not having these..
Re:Afternoon:
The BIOS does not have the ability to turn it back on (unless wake on lan is used). I appreciate the help Stash regarding the shutdown command. Maybe automatic shutdown would be the best. I could just manually turn it on in the mornings.
To guy and guy: I know it's not going to save a lot of electricity, but it will save some. 
I am also trying to minimize noise at night. The server is for a home office network. =)
Thanks everyone for your suggestions and thoughts.
Re:I agree with guy. Your not going to save all that much electricity. Use the everning hours to do backups of the servers and other jobs that you don't want running during the day.
Re:Does the bios have an option to turn it on at a specified time? If that were the case you could use Stash's suggestion to shut it down and than the bios to turn it on in the morning.
Are you really going to save that much electricity by shutting it down overnight?
Re:You should be able to create a task that uses the shutdown command. The command could be something like 'shutdown -s -t 0'
Turning it back on will be a problem though.
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