It’s pretty cheap so I decided to experiment with it. When at home, my laptop is powered by a back-up power adapter I’ve bought at AliExpress. It may lead to a loose connection over time.

Once activated, the laptop will power on every time you connect the power adapter to AC or, alternatively, its DC cable to the laptop: Dell BIOS settings.īingo! But pulling the AC plug from mains or, rather, the DC plug from the laptop isn’t that great an option. The laptop’s BIOS has the Wake on AC switch. I’ve eventually managed to find an almost perfect, but also a slightly quirky, solution. The laptop’s BIOS also offers wake-by-USB support, but that would require having the USB ports constantly powered, which would deplete the battery pretty quickly once you disconnect it from the AC. There is, for instance, the Wake-on-LAN function, but in order to use it you’ll need another device capable of sending a magic packet. I’ve explored the options and searched quite a few forums where people with a similar problem asked for an advice, with no luck.

Slide the laptop out of the monitor stand Īnd you have to follow this routine every time you want to turn the computer on.

It’s good because it prevents the device from an accidental powering on, yet on the downside, in order to turn it on, you’ll need to: My Dell XPS 13, like many other laptop models, has its power button hidden beneath the lid.

The power-on problemĪnd this is all great except for one small, but annoying issue. Such a setup is also convenient since it allows you to grab and carry your laptop after disconnecting a couple of cables. This is pretty neat and looks as follows: My work place. It has all the peripheral devices, like a 4K display, a keyboard, a mouse etc., constantly attached to it. At home I’m using my laptop in a kind of a stationary setup.

Turn on laptop without power button