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trying to wire an arcade button to the power button on my pc
katuuuz:
When I get home tonight I'll attach the image of the io panel to this thread. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this. I also would like to thank you for your interest in helping me.
garnerb350:
Katuuuz... when you get home place the tower in your lap with the front facing your right... pop open the case and underneath the hard drive you will see 6 wires ( might be bundled) those are the wires that are for your power & 2 led lights ( system busy, etc) ... Follow them to your motherboard...they should connect to a set of pins....i think around the middle/top right ( im trying to remember this ) The second set of pins from the top (green & brown wire???) should be the ones for power...
My mame cab uses a 4600 and what i did was take a regular pushbutton and wired it to an old 2 pin motherboard connector wire... like one here
Now you might have more wires @ the bottom (those are for the front usb hub) but you can figure out what goes to what ... 4600 was the first PC i started tinkering with and i was amazed at how simple it was when you spend time messing with it...
Hope this doesnt confuse you more...Currently im away from my cab and im going off memory from 2 years ago...
BobA:
The 4600c is a compact case and does not have the same connections as the tower.
katuuuz:
Yeah as boba stated, my 4600c guts are different from your 4600's. Thanks for the insight though. I should have researched the 4600c before purchase. I'm almost ready to say screw it and buy a micro atx board. I really don't want to spend the $ but dells are... Well, they are dells.
I just found this article about how the power button on this model is connected. Maybe one of you understand what it is that I can do:
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/17667049.aspx
BobA:
Don't give up yet.
As I said previously If you can take the connector off the MB then you can use a multimeter to determine which contacts are closed when the power button is pressed. You do not have to get the front panel off.
If it is a ribbon cable you need a bit of solid wire to put in the various holes in the connector of the ribbon cable. Put one bit in pin 1 and move the other to all the other pins. If you measure continuity while pushing the on button you will find the proper pair. If pin 1 does not work try pin 2 etc etc etc. Takes a lot of checking but when you find the right pair you will know where to connect your power button.