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roknrol:

--- Quote ---I never said I use the power switch to shut down the PC. On exit of my frontEnd (Hyperspin) the PC shuts down. Only after that is finished I use the power switch to switch off the whole cab. But that is not different with a smart powerstrip...

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Just read in an earlier thread that some FEs can be used to shut down and exit Windows. Didn't realize that was a possibility. (Still learning!)

Planning on a bartop and wasn't thinking there'd be room for a SmartStrip. The switched solution sounds appealing. Thanks.
JDFan:

--- Quote from: DaOld Man on September 19, 2013, 12:40:02 pm ---JDFan, I think the setting is in your PC's BIOS, not in windows.
While PC is booting (before Windows logo appears), hit F2 or DEL key. (Some PCs use a different key, maybe F10, but F2 or DEL is the most common.)
This will take you into a simple menu. This is BIOS.
Search in there until you find power down options.
If it's not there, then you cant use this option.

I use my front end (Mala) to shut down the machine when it exits. This insures windows shuts down properly.
I use a button wired to my PC pwr on button to turn the PC on.

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That is the same as I do.
But was just wondering if EMDB had a way to set it up where the power on switch (rather than a momentary button press) also started the boot of the system from a shut down state -- ie. you flip the power on and the PC starts to boot from shut down rather than having to press a second button to actually start the system (As I would think it still requires a button press to actually boot the system or shut it down), since the switch would be a continuous not momentary button and continually sending the power on the PC start button would cause the system to constantly turn on and then shut down since the button would always be in the pressed state (like holding the power on button on a PC case). So was just lookiing to clarify whether that switch he posted was just to turn on power and then a separate button was used for boot and\or shut down or if the switch was the only thing needed.

I know the PC can be set to boot once power is restored but normally that is only if the power was lost, so that the PC was in "on" mode and would not work if the system had been shut down properly before the power was disconnected.(though I guess you could use restart rather than shut down and turn off power in between the restart process so that when power was restored it would then finish the restart -but seems that would require timing the turning off of the switch properly) - So was wondering how he would make it work if properly shutting down before turning off power as he seemed to suggest he was doing.
DaOld Man:
Well, you use the same maintained switch to turn the PC on and off. So that way the PC thinks the power failed.
Of course in case the PC doesn't think the power failed and shut down due to a windows error or whatever, you will need access to the PC power button to restart it.

roknroll: Most frontends do offer the ability to shutdown on exit. I know mala does.
If your frontend does not offer that, I have a program you can use to start the frontend on Windows start, then properly shut down the PC when it senses the front end has ended.
roknrol:
I was targeting MaLa for the front end anyway.

The other thread mentioned GameEx and Hyperspin as capable, but good to hear that MaLa can do it, too.
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