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trying to wire an arcade button to the power button on my pc
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katuuuz:
Ok, I stuck a piece of wire into both the holes ithat correspond with the pins outlined in red above.  (stuck the wires in the cable).  plugged my machine in, and upon touching the protruding wires with my DMM i got a shrt reading.  (without pressing the power button).  I'll go back and test each pair in case what i just explained is not what i'm looking for.
katuuuz:
GOT IT!

Wow that was awesome.  I found the two holes in the cable that sound off when I hit the power button.  My final question to all of you wonderful people is how am I supposed to wire out of that and plug it back in to the daughter board?  
Donkbaca:
how does the power button interface with the daughter board?
Donkbaca:
the two wires you have coming out of the ribbon cable.  If you touch the ends together, does the computer turn on?
Donkbaca:
IF you touch the ends of the wires (short them) and the computer turns on, then you have found your power switch wires.  You can then just splice two wires into the ribbon and connect those wires to a microswitch.
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