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Witchboard:
Groovy.  After I re-read my question, it was a stupid one anyway. ;D
rsoandrew:

--- Quote from: REBIRTH on June 16, 2004, 01:23:23 am ---
(1) That on/off pushbutton switch has two wiring posts underneath it (well mine does, the picture above has two pair, similar idea).  The powerstrip cord has two wires in it (sometimes 3, the third being the ground wire).  All I did was cut 1 of the power wires (not ground) in the the power strip cord in the middle, connected either end of the cut wire to each wiring post on the button.  Like a house light switch, this switch just sits in the middle of the electrical flow and either allows the flow to go through (button "on") or stops the flow (button "off").  I installed the button on the top of my cab.

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For the sake of safety, I think a little more explanation on the wiring is necessary. Note that working with household electrical is really easy but you need to know some basic information. The wire that you want to cut is the BLACK wire. Unlike with cars, batteries and other DC current devices, the hot side of house wiring is the BLACK wire. White is neutral and green is ground.

Now if you were to install the power strip by cutting the neutral wire everything would work fine except the power strip would always be
Witchboard:
I would think that if you followed basic safety precautions you won't have any problem either way.  Unplug your cab when you do any kind of electrical work.

It's still good information to have though.
simplygriff:
I want to clarify something because I think this is the way I'm going to go.  Basically you're re-locating the power switch of the surge protector.  So if I just turned off the surge protector/power strip after shut down I should in theory be able to just turn the strip back on and the pc should boot.  Is this right?  Sounds pretty simple if that is the case.  
nealj:
I use Windows XP - in the control panel under Power Options, on the "advanced" page there is an option that controls what happens when you push the power button.  I have it set to "Shut Down" when I push the button.  Now when I'm done playing, I just hit the same power button that I used to turn it all on (I've got a SmartStrip) will now turn it all off AND run windows through an orderly shutdown.
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