Double click your power button!!

[Ryan]

Just found out by reading one of the new examples http://www.geocities.com/frostillicus1974/ that by clicking your power button on your PC twice it runs the shut down.  Supposedly it applys to most new computers and it worked on both of mine.  

This really helps me out, now I don't have to add another botton to my cabinet.  I will just wire the PC power button to exterior.  Maybe this will help someone else that didn't know this.

[Frostillicus]

Yeah isn't that nifty?  I was messing around with the little switch after disconnected it from the case and was, like, cool!  

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I wired the pic power button to the outside of the cab right below the control panel in the front.  Flip the master switch in back, then tap the Pc button, and it's ready to go. double click for shutdown - easy stuff.

[u_rebelscum]

Just found out by reading one of the new examples http://www.geocities.com/frostillicus1974/ that by clicking your power button on your PC twice it runs the shut down.  Supposedly it applys to most new computers and it worked on both of mine.  

This really helps me out, now I don't have to add another botton to my cabinet.  I will just wire the PC power button to exterior.  Maybe this will help someone else that didn't know this.

I have set up all my personal computers for single click of power switch to shutdown (software shutdown), and a four second held press to do a hardware shutdown.

Never heard of the double click trick, but sounds safer than the way I set mine up (harder to accidentally double click than single click).  Anyone know how do I switch back?

[Tiger-Heli]

Just found out by reading one of the new examples http://www.geocities.com/frostillicus1974/ that by clicking your power button on your PC twice it runs the shut down.  Supposedly it applys to most new computers and it worked on both of mine.  

This really helps me out, now I don't have to add another botton to my cabinet.  I will just wire the PC power button to exterior.  Maybe this will help someone else that didn't know this.

I have set up all my personal computers for single click of power switch to shutdown (software shutdown), and a four second held press to do a hardware shutdown.

Never heard of the double click trick, but sounds safer than the way I set mine up (harder to accidentally double click than single click).  Anyone know how do I switch back?

Maybe this is a WinXP feature?  (But Urebel is running ME!)  I've never heard of this working.  On my NT computer (IBM, approximately 18 months old) pressing the power switch once (trying to double click) immediately shut (not the shutdown sequence), the pulling the plug, who turned out the lights, black screen and restart!!!

On restart, the computer took about 30 seconds to load, instead of the usual 5 which I think means it was running Scandisk and all the rest.  On Windows 95 and newer operatings systems, shutting the PC down this way will eventually keep Windows from booting!!!!

Could Frosticillus, Ryan, or anyone else that's gotten this to work, please share motherboard model, OS used, and verify that it is actually a software shutdown, not a hard boot.

Urebel, there should be a BIOS selection to change this, for a Shuttle AK32 (i don't have one), it's under POWER MANAGEMENT, and "Soft-off by PWRBTN" and the options are "Instant Off" or "Delay 4 Sec".  I'm pretty sure this just cuts power to the board, though, not a true software shutdown.

How did you get the power switch to do a software shutdown on a single press?

OT, Urebel, did you get my E-mail on laminate??

[u_rebelscum]

Maybe this is a WinXP feature?
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Could Frosticillus, Ryan, or anyone else that's gotten this to work, please share motherboard model, OS used, and verify that it is actually a software shutdown, not a hard boot.

Pretty please.  Is it an XP only thing like TigerHeli suggested?  (I have winME)

Urebel, there should be a BIOS selection to change this, for a Shuttle AK32 (i don't have one), it's under POWER MANAGEMENT, and "Soft-off by PWRBTN" and the options are "Instant Off" or "Delay 4 Sec".  I'm pretty sure this just cuts power to the board, though, not a true software shutdown.

Yup (see next line).

How did you get the power switch to do a software shutdown on a single press?

A combo of the BIOS and Power Options, Advanced tab in the control panel.  
The BIOS is set to DELAY 4 Sec (or the MSI equiv)
The control panel power buttons: "When I press the power button on my computer:" (actual title) is set to Power Off.
I don't see anything about double clicking the power button, so double click looks like it might be an XP feature?

OT, Urebel, did you get my E-mail on laminate??

Yes, and I'm still reading it. j/k  Really, it's a lot of info for me to digest half asleep.  I'll reread and reply when I wake up.

[Tiger-Heli]

A combo of the BIOS and Power Options, Advanced tab in the control panel.  
The BIOS is set to DELAY 4 Sec (or the MSI equiv)
The control panel power buttons: "When I press the power button on my computer:" (actual title) is set to Power Off.
I don't see anything about double clicking the power button, so double click looks like it might be an XP feature?

Hmmmn, it's under Control Panel, Power Options, Advanced, then.  I don't have that on my NT machine, but the Communist sys admins may have taken that out to protect me (or them) from myself.

I don't remember being able to set anything like that in '98 but maybe I overlooked it, or maybe it was new to WinME., I'll check tonight.

OT, Urebel, did you get my E-mail on laminate??
Yes, and I'm still reading it. j/k  Really, it's a lot of info for me to digest half asleep.  I'll reread and reply when I wake up.

Fair enough!!

[BobA]

I have an PC Chips 599LMR motherboard.   It is running W98 SE.   A double click of my power switch puts me into standby mode.  A single click after that brings me back to where I was very quickly.  I checked my bios but could not see where to alter this action.  Will have to look closer to see if it can be set to shutdown instead.

It is probably a MB related feature rather then OS related in this instance.

Thanks for the original info.  I had never tried a double click before.

BobA

[Minwah]

I tried this on some work PC's: Dell Dimension (P4 2.26Ghz) 8200 with WinXP & Dimension 8100 (P4 1.4Ghz) with Win2k.  They both shut down properly using the 'double-press' thing.

I also tried it on my own Athlon 1.4 Asus A7A266 m/b XP machine - again it worked perfectly

Thanks for the great tip  

[Frostillicus]

Yeah I am using XP pro, amd duron 1.3ghz, gigabyte GA7vkml muthaboard, and a little red button - which makes all the difference

Maybe it is an xp thing, which could suck for me or 98 users.  But it is definitely a software shutdown, if I hold the power button down for 10 seconds it just turns off, which is bad in the long run.  double click and it closes the windows, goes to the shutdown screen(caption: windows is now shuting down...) then it turns off.

[JMDickson]

  Most atx systems with windows shutdown automagicially with a single click of the power button.  I do have one system - ABit BX6 based w/ win me - that  complains every 10'th time that 'The system did not recover from suspend mode the last 10 times it attempted, should it be disabled?' - or some such thing.
  I believe it is a windows power-management feature.  When you press the button the hardware sets an io port, windows can then use this to start the shutdown process.

[tom61]

On my Athlon XP 1.3Ghz system with ECS K7S5A motherboard, tapping the power button once makes it shutdown in Windows 98, 98SE, and XP. Most every ATX mainboard and version of windows newer than 95 should shutdown with with a power button press. Win 2K systems at school shutdown with a switch, I'm not sure about NT 4 systems though. Most Linuxes will invoke "shutdown - h now" when the power button is pressed.

AT based systems are a diifferent story, they have a hardware power switch. If want to shutdown an AT based system with a button press, and you need an encoder that supports macros. Map a button to the "Windows" button or "Ctrl+Esc" then the following sequence: Up, Enter, Enter. If its a 98 or higher system it will do whatever was last selected in the shutdown screen,  in win 95 (Without IE 4) this sequence will always shut down. Then just flip off main power.

[MrArcade]

Both of my win98se systems allow the dbl click shout down.  One is an older k62-400 on an atx mband the other is a newer Athlon 1.7+ on a soyo dragon+ atx mb.

I know many atx based systems I have built have the choice of "instant off" or some sort of delay in the bios.  I would imagine if it is set to "instant off" this cool dbl click feature would not work.

[Tiger-Heli]

I've never had standby mode work on any system I've owned, so maybe that's the problem.

[Ryan]

Both computers work for double click and they shutdown.  Both are Windows  98se, one is a generic and one is a gateway.

[Howard_Casto]

Usually it isn't a double click, although double clicking will simulate the action you are supposed to be doing and shut it down.  It's holding down the power button for 2 seconds.  No more, no less.  Less and nothing will happen, more and it will power down.  In xp and me i believe you can choose what you want the power buttons to do.  You can even make the useless reset key shutdown your system with a single press if you want.

Hope that helps.