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Donkbaca:
Hi, I have a couple of questions:

1)  Love the idea of a one button power up/power down solution.  I am currently set up to have everything power up and automatically shut down from the PC power button, but I am thinking of having a "no button" power solution.  I know you can set up your bios to Wake On LAN, whereby a packet is sent to your mobo to start up.  My question is, how do you remotely shutdown?  Anybody currently do this?  I think it would be kind of neat to be able to power up and shut down from my iphone, and not have to worry about kids and other guests turning the cabinet off.

2) Here is my hardware/software setup:  Pentium 4 3.0 ghz; 1.5mb of Ram, ati radeon 9600, 200gb of hard drive space.  I am thinking about maybe moving to a 64 bit operating system, is it worth it?
Smeghead:

You could hide the power button or have the TV (if you are using a tv) as the controlling power and then you could use a remote maybe?

The wake on LAN would probably work though, although a power button on top would stop the kids turning it off

jimmy2x2x:
2) 1.5mb of ram??

XP X64 gives a decent performance boost on lower end systems such as yours, I would recommend it as your best choice for that system.
Makes sure you use a 64 bit build of mame, and spend some time disabling services if you want to get better boot speeds/performance out of it.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXPx64/servicecfg.htm
Donkbaca:
haha 1.5gb of ram. 

Re: power button - yeah, I already have a smart strip and have my power management configured to shut down on the press of the power button, but I am just wondering if I even NEED a power button.  Might be kind of cool to have a cabinet with no buttons on it except for controls.  Wondering if anyone has gone the WOL route and if they can let me know how to remotely shut everything down safely.

re: XP 64 - What kind of boosts would I get?  What would play better?  I am just wondering if someone can point me to something that would show the benefits of 32 bit vs 64 bit MAME

Thanks for your help!
newmanfamilyvlogs:
Only the very last of the P4s were capable of 64bit, so you might want to double check that it's compatible:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/105
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