Turning on PC - button extension?

[Richardgregory]

How do you all turn on your MAME PC, which is insided your cabinet??

Perhaps a rewiring to a button somewhere along to cabinet?

[brad808]

That's what I did. Stuck a spare arcade button up top at the back and wired it to the power on the mother board 

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[kiwasabi]

Then you can also get a smart strip and set your PC as the master port, with your speakers, lights, monitor, etc being set as slave ports. So when you use that external PC power button it actually turns everything on and off. This is the one I used:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004H1PV4S/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[matt4949]

I have this Dell in my cab and followed this video to the letter. Worked great.

[EMDB]

Or set the PC to boot at power on in the BIOS and simply connect everything (PC, monitor, power adapters, ...) to a single mains power switch.



Thats what I did. I use a DELL Optiplex PC 745...

[DHTech]

Or set the PC to boot at power on in the BIOS and simply connect everything (PC, monitor, power adapters, ...) to a single mains power switch.



Thats what I did. I use a DELL Optiplex PC 745...

Most PC don't have power on in the bios settings, only power on in the event of power failure, so this wouldn't work, also wouldn't use that type of switch to turn on your PC, you need a momentary switch (non-latching).

[EMDB]

Most PC don't have power on in the bios settings, only power on in the event of power failure, so this wouldn't work, also wouldn't use that type of switch to turn on your PC, you need a momentary switch (non-latching).

You don't quite get it: The switch is used to switch the power of the PC not to trigger the PC's power switch. TS mentioned a DELL PC and at least they have the power failure setting as that is the trick: you simply put power on the mains supply of the PC which triggers booting the PC due to the power failure setting. You never use the PC's power switch this way.

[DHTech]

Most PC don't have power on in the bios settings, only power on in the event of power failure, so this wouldn't work, also wouldn't use that type of switch to turn on your PC, you need a momentary switch (non-latching).

You don't quite get it: The switch is used to switch the power of the PC not to trigger the PC's power switch. TS mentioned a DELL PC and at least they have the power failure setting as that is the trick: you simply put power on the mains supply of the PC which triggers booting the PC due to the power failure setting. You never use the PC's power switch this way.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you are suggesting is to power on the PC using the BIOS power failure settings! this is a terrible idea, you asking for trouble as you could easily corrupt the OS by not shutting down the PC properly.

[jimmer]

I was gonna ask EMDB about power down. But as he doesn't seem to have a cab that won't have been a problem for him yet.

Do all PCs (windows operating systems) have a nice clean shutdown by physical button?

[EMDB]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you are suggesting is to power on the PC using the BIOS power failure settings! this is a terrible idea, you asking for trouble as you could easily corrupt the OS by not shutting down the PC properly.

I never said I shut down the PC using the power switch.

I was gonna ask EMDB about power down. But as he doesn't seem to have a cab that won't have been a problem for him yet.

Do all PCs (windows operating systems) have a nice clean shutdown by physical button?

I DO have a cab (see my signature). I turn it on using the power switch (which boots the PC directly into Hyperspin). I let Hyperspin shut down Windows on exit. Afterwards I turn the whole cab off with the power switch.

[CoryBee]

I let Hyperspin shut down Windows on exit. Afterwards I turn the whole cab off with the power switch.

This has came up plenty of times. Mention this in the first post next time. People don't seem to get you can shut down through your fron-end on exit.

 

[welshjpc]

Yip I've just used one of the operator buttons behind the coin mech door, wired that to the connector on the motherboard. One advantage of that is my 4 year old can't just switch the cab on whenever he wants to as the door is locked when I'm not about. You can set windows to power off the PC with the power button as well so once the cab is finished with its just one button press, then Maximus & windows shut down and then the PC powers off. And as a matter of habit I always then switch it off at the wall when I'm done so the monitor doesn't stay on standby for hours.