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REBIRTH:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 16, 2004, 07:47:31 am ---Nice write-up, a couple of points:

--- Quote from: REBIRTH on June 16, 2004, 01:23:23 am ---Anyway, on the PC, turn on your power management settings in the BIOS (or CMOS).  What this does is boot up your PC any time power is turned on.

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If this doesn't work - most, not all BIOS will have a setting for "State after Power Failure" - OFF/ON.  Setting this to ON should accomplish the same thing, I think.

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Exactly - this is actually what my new MAME PC has.  My old one had your standard power management, the new one has this "State after power" setting which acts much the same way.
pakchooi:
Thanks for the guide.
I'll be using it for my cab.
:)
SirPeale:
What has been said about the board needing the feature for restarting after power off is correct.  The boards that I'm using did not support this feature, hence my search for an easy, one switch approach.

No soldering was necessary, just had to jumper a capacitor over the power button pins.
Witchboard:

--- Quote from: Peale on June 16, 2004, 08:54:50 am ---What has been said about the board needing the feature for restarting after power off is correct.  The boards that I'm using did not support this feature, hence my search for an easy, one switch approach.

No soldering was necessary, just had to jumper a capacitor over the power button pins.

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Do you still have to push the power button to shut down your system with the capacitor?
SirPeale:

--- Quote from: Witchboard on June 16, 2004, 08:58:29 am ---
--- Quote from: Peale on June 16, 2004, 08:54:50 am ---What has been said about the board needing the feature for restarting after power off is correct.  The boards that I'm using did not support this feature, hence my search for an easy, one switch approach.

No soldering was necessary, just had to jumper a capacitor over the power button pins.

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Do you still have to push the power button to shut down your system with the capacitor?
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I'm not using Windows.  Everything is controlled by the original JAMMA cabinet's toggle switch.  One flip, everything turns on.  Want to shut it off?  Reach up and flip again.  
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