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MNW:

I am trying to get my cabinet to turn on without opening the coin door and pressing the "power" button on my PC.  I read Saint's book, which suggests that my computer may be able to turn on with a key stroke and that I should "check the system setup on the PC" to make this happen.  I have also purchased a Smartstrip.

So, a couple of questions:
1. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do to see if this works?
2. If this doesn't work, what are my other options?  I have seen people talk about a Master Switch, but I don't know what this means or how to get it going.

Anything here would help.

Thanks

monkey puzzle:

You could just do what I did.

Open up the pc case, cut the 2 wires going to the power switch and extend these wires to a button at the back of your cabinet. Then you just reach round to the back of the cabinet to turn on/off.

This is very easy to do. Just don't forget to turn off the mains first.

postmortem:

I did the same thing but I put my button on the top of the cab

Savannan:

Yep, do what they said above...

Also...

If you don't have one of those smart power strips, get one.  Put the computer on the MAIN plug in, then the monitor, speakers, ect on the Secondarys.  You will have a 1 button power on for all your componets. 

Sav

SammyWI:


--- Quote from: monkey puzzle on February 11, 2012, 06:21:45 pm ---You could just do what I did.

Open up the pc case, cut the 2 wires going to the power switch and extend these wires to a button at the back of your cabinet. Then you just reach round to the back of the cabinet to turn on/off.

This is very easy to do. Just don't forget to turn off the mains first.

--- End quote ---

This.

I have a door on the front of my cab that is very easy to open to get tot the PC power switch.  But after I ran a remote button on the back of the cab, it really felt so much more finished.

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