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Chris:

Could it be slowing down due to heat?  Removing a PC from its case completely changes the thermal flow, and overheating processors will slow down to reduce heat...

MonitorGuru:

Oh no... you turned the drive upside down?  Now you went and made all the molassas they use at the bottom of the drive to help shield it from shock get all over the platters and make the heads move much slower when you flipped it upside down.  ;)  ;D  :o  ;)  ;)  ;)

Just kidding.

First, you're welcome. Glad I could help make it work.

Second, you may have simply stretched the wire when you were removing the original switch.  It could be broken either at the switch OR at the jumper connection.  To see, simply cut the wires off next to the switch, strip them to see some wire, then reconnect the other end to the jumpers and then see if touching both wires together starts the computer.  If so, then try to reattch to the switch on the terminals they were on.  If it works, just solder in place and you're done.  if not, the contacts on that side of the switch may be bad.  If so, you can use the other side of the switch.  Looking at the bad drawing below, if the original switch was connected at position 1 and 2, reconnect the wires (either way) at positions 4 and 5 and try it.  That should fix it.  Otherwise, as others posted, simply wire the wires to an arcade button microswitch to turn on your computer from the outside :)

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Third- Running a drive upside down.   Tecnically that is not advised due to the heat not moving correctly, but newer drives are definitely more able to handle strange mounts. MANY computers (e.g. almost all Dell computers) mount the drive vertically instead of horizontally.  Whenever I test drives on my workbench, I run them upside down to ensure I dont accidentially short out the circuit board due to some metal shavings on the counter/etc..   I wouldn't run them forever upside down, but no, you shouldn't harm it by doing so.  Hard drives live in much worse conditions (like old ReplayTV's that have them encased in foam and metal with NO FAN!)

Fourth--Your slowness.  It is possible to windows reloading the drivers in a different order, selecting basic functionality over optimized, etc..  Or as the previous poster suggested... It is possible you don't have adequate cooling any longer and your CPU is throttling down to a slower speed to protect itself from literally burning up.  You can verify this by downloading a CPU frequency calculator (like CPUID from www.cpuid.com) and have it check the speed.  It is ALSO possible that during your move, you caused the BIOS to clear and it set the CPU and memory speeds to a low default. This is less likely since you have an HP which is usually set at a specific frequency as the only one you can select from, but many OEM motherboards let you select speeds and default to a low setting if you accidentally reset the bios by loosing power to the board or letting the battery fall out or accidentially jumpering the clear cms jumpers.

Good luck. let us know!

truz206:

wow something actually went right for me. I came home from work last night and fired up the computer and its working as fast as it was before i decased.

I took out a network pci card i didnt need and some of the front usb ports they were plugged in but not hooked up properly so they didnt work.

Then when i powered it on everything worked great.  Dont know if removing that stuffed helped but all is well, but i reinstalled all my drivers just to be safe.


One more thing also. Now dont scoff at me when i tell you that this is a side by side cabinet from dreamarcades.com but i am having problems with the joysticks. I cannot get them to register diagonal movements. Like in a fighting game it is impossible to jump diagonally forward. Its really weird. So i went into the mame control settings to check it out and all the primary directions were set to the right spots but the diagonals seemed weird. They were all mapped to letters like I, M and others that i dont quite remember. Shouldnt they just say  "up+right" by default since i mapped the primary directions already.

I dont know what the problem is with that, i emailed support last night but it was late and was thinking maybe you guys could answer my question quicker. thanks




truz206:

it seems like the diagonals only work in one place, it wont register anything in between which makes it a pain in most of the games. You have to push the stick in just the right direction to get it to register the diagonal. It shouldnt be like this, is there anything i can do to fix it?



If it helps this thing runs off of an ipac.

truz206:

can anyone help on why it is so hard for my joysticks to register diagonal movements?

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