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  1. burnbag
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago

    It appears the clock doesn't wake-up a system that is in standby when the Alarm is due?
    Am I doing something wrong?

  2. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 1 year ago

    Here's some troubleshooting tips:

    Citrus Alarm Clock will wake up your computer system from its low-power "sleep mode" one minute before alarm time. This may not apply to "hibernation mode" (which is different from "sleep mode") on all computers, however. If your computer is configured to hibernate instead of sleep, configuring it to sleep only may solve the issue. Note that Citrus Alarm Clock will never turn on your computer from its off state.

    Note that if your computer's BIOS is configured to the wrong date, your computer will not wake up as scheduled. Re-booting your computer into its BIOS configuration mode may allow you to re-set the date. Consult your computer's manual for details.

    Double-check to ensure your alarm was configured properly. Ensure that your system date is configured properly and that your alarm was not set to PM instead of AM (or vice versa).

    To ensure your computer will activate, always test a sample alarm beforehand. If you're testing a sample alarm always set it to 5 minutes or more in the future to leave ample time for the computer's sleep process.

    Citrus Alarm Clock must be running in order for an alarm to activate. Logging out of your Windows account or shutting down the computer will cause Citrus Alarm Clock to quit. To ensure Citrus is running, use Windows' "switch user" feature instead of logging out of your account.

    Citrus may not be able to wake certain laptop models while their lid is closed. If this applies to your laptop, ensure the lid remains open overnight.

  3. relashish
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago

    It would be nice if you could include feature of waking up the computer from hibernation. I have seen some other alarm clock which do so(like justice alarm clock). Hope you can include that.

  4. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 1 year ago

    Citrus may or may not wake your computer up from hibernation mode (as opposed to regular sleep mode), depending on your motherboard and BIOS version. I don't advertise it as a feature since it's not 100% compatible with all computers, but you can give it a try.

    Citrus will, of course, always wake your computer from regular sleep mode on any modern computer capable of running Windows XP or higher, though.

  5. Anonymous

    Posted 11 months ago

    update the bios",

  6. Anonymous

    Posted 7 months ago

    You need to enable wake timers in the control panel on windows 7 (maybe other versions too?). By default they are off.

    See this for more info: http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/allow-wake-timers-in-windows-7/

    After you enable this, it should work.

  7. Anonymous

    Posted 1 month ago

    checked my bios and its showing correct date/time, checked and set 2 different alarm programs citrus and my old one (aqaurius) running win 7 x64 neither alarm is working in win 7 but the old one worked like a champ in xp. made adjustments in power management as suggested in other posts but when i manually go check the task scheduler i dont see a task to wake on xx:xxtime by either alarm program. anyother thoughts or ideas?

  8. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 1 month ago

    Citrus doesn't use the task scheduler application, so the wakeup time will never appear there. Is your computer very old? If so, it's possible that it simply may not support waking up from its sleep state.


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