I need to free some space from my desk, so I'd like to get rid of the laptop (Acer Nitro AN515-58) from the top and move it under (or next to) it. The problem is that I need to keep my laptop closed, and it will be hard to open it in order to press the power button.
In all of my laptops, I've been always using the "Power on AC" option, so whenever the PC gets plugged in, it will turn on. Unfortunately, my Acer Nitro doesn't have that option.
I've tried Wake on Lan. Plugged my laptop into the router, and sent the magic packet, but it worked only from the sleep mode. If I put my laptop to hibernation or shut down the system completely, it won't wake up. I've tried multiple settings in BIOS and the system, and I couldn't change it.
The last option that I tried was to enable "USB/TBT wake from s4". I'm using my laptop connected to a USB-C monitor (Dell U2719DC) and using it as a docking station. With the USB/TBT wake it kind of worked. Once I put the PC into hibernation (would prefer to shut down, but hibernation is still fine) and press a spacebar on my USB keyboard connected to the monitor, the PC wakes up. BUT, when I turned off the monitor and turned it on again, the keyboard wasn't able to wake up the computer anymore.
I've played with various options, disabled sleep for USB controllers, for network devices (for WoL), and disabled Fast Boot in both Windows and BIOS, and nothing helped.
Any ideas on what I can do? Is it possible to replace BIOS to add the "Power on AC" option? The "USB/TBT wake" option seems most promising, any ideas why it won't work after shutting down the monitor?
I'm attaching a screenshot of my BIOS settings (the Fast Boot is now disabled).
[Edited the thread to add model name to the title]
