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Is there a way to delay the power to my monitor?
brad808:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 01, 2013, 07:00:47 pm ---Most real arcade games that run on PC hardware actually do show the post screens and I have even seen some obviously boot windows before the game software loaded.
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+1 on this, I had a pga tour championship that showed the post and then windows xp embeded boot screen, then switch to looked like a pga background, then the game loaded up
DaOld Man:
Im still bouncing around the idea of having a video player display on the screen until windows boots, then switch the monitor to the PC.
Does anyone have any ideas for a simple video player that turns on instantly?
My thought is to have the PC automatically switch the monitor from the video player to the PC and maybe power off the video player. The control would be fairly simple, use either comport or printer port to turn on a vga relay, the relay would switch monitor to either video player or PC, but I cant find a player that I think would work.
But if you simply want the monitor off until the PC boots, you could probably have a relay turned on through printer port by the PC. The relay would control power to the monitor.
But a timer would probably be a lot simpler.
Steve248:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 01, 2013, 11:45:31 am ---555 timer circuit and a relay?
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This is a good idea. Relatively easy to make in electronic terms.
lilshawn:
http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/projects/timer.htm
not exactly what you'd be looking for, but could be easily adapted.
Negative:
If you need power delay only to hide Windows logo, i think much simplier will be disable logo with programs like Restorator (or something like this). It's very simple with XP, a little tricky with Windows 7. I had the same problem (didn't want to see Windows logo during booting my cab), but i cleared all boot graphics.
Also, you can use hibernate instead of shutdown, and delete system picture "Restoring Windows...", and there will be no intro graphics when you power up your cab.