Awesome deduction ErikRudd! That is exactly what the timer delay is for.
Unfourtunately I haven't had the time to put together a full start to finsih write up but I will when completed, please stop back by if your interested.
The 2 555 timers do exactly what you said, they create a delay between my PC and the TV Remote turn on wire. I found that my power strip relay worked great but my TV would sometimes not turn on and that was because my turn on switch for my cabinet boots my PC as well as turns ON my TV. The only problem with the setup is that the power strip relay doesn't get energized until the motherboard powers up, so there isn't any power for the TV to turn ON. So my solution was to build the timer delay...
I use 12 volts from the power supply to energize the relay on the power strip not the spacebar, that lets me use a regular ON/OFF pushbutton switch to power on the cabinet.
Yes, I could have done it differently and I wasn't looking to be all that "impressive", I mean who's going to see it?? It was more of a project similar to the cabinet itself. I could have bought an Arcade cabinet instead of making one...
Great deduction!