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How to Start My MAME cab with one button
ubiquityman:
Another option if you are using a keyboard encoder is to program one of the buttons as "power".
It's not as robust as hard-wiring to the computer, but during normal operation, it's sufficient to put the computer in and out of standby.
DeLuSioNal29:
Also, there are some BIOSes that support a power feature that will start the computer automatically when it has a power loss. So if you turn it off with a power strip, it will automatically turn back on when you apply power to the computer again.
Then you would want to configure Windows so that when you shut down, it will get to a screen that says, "It is now safe to turn off your computer" so that Windows shuts down safely before you cut off the power. You can do the opposite of this article to get it to stay at the screen that says, "It is now safe to turn off your computer".
All software driven.
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umdsfinest:
Sham, do you have any pics from your work? I also have a Compaq Evo and am wondering how to do what you did. Thanks!
drventure:
Another option to throw out there. In my bios anyway, there's an option to "power on with PS2" which, when it's ON, causes ANY activity on the PS2 ports (kbd or mouse) to power up the PC.
To shut down, just map an entry in MaLa to run a BAT file to shut the system down (or put a call to a shutdown utility in a bat file used to start Mala, so that when It ends, it'll automatically shut the cab down.
You'd still want a Smart strip in this case though.
raungst:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on February 24, 2010, 04:57:41 pm ---Also, there are some BIOSes that support a power feature that will start the computer automatically when it has a power loss. So if you turn it off with a power strip, it will automatically turn back on when you apply power to the computer again.
Then you would want to configure Windows so that when you shut down, it will get to a screen that says, "It is now safe to turn off your computer" so that Windows shuts down safely before you cut off the power. You can do the opposite of this article to get it to stay at the screen that says, "It is now safe to turn off your computer".
All software driven.
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I'm having a similar issue with my Dell computer. I'm a little nervous messing with the power cable when I don't know what each wire does. I'd like to get the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" route working, but I have an ACPI computer, and I can't figure out how to prevent it from turning itself off after Windows has shut down. Has anyone got this to work?
My BIOS has AC recovery, so if I can get this working I'm golden. Is there any other way to simulate a power failure without actually just turning the power off?