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cabinet on/off button
Will:
I could have swore that I saw a thread on this a while back where someone had purchased a premade button with cable that attaches to the mobo.Does anyone remember this or no of such product?
Fuzzguitar:
I simply have a normal powerboard (in black which looks nicer than white) inside my cab that the PC, monitor and speakers are plugged into. A single black lead trails out and is connected to the wall switch which is always off unless I plan to use the cab.
The monitor and speakers are permanently switched on and I've replaced the PC power switch with an arcade pushbutton mounted on the top back of my cab.
So when I want to use the cab I switch on the wall switch (turns on monitor and speakers) and then push the power button on back of cab (which boots the pc).
This seems like the perfect solution for me.
gap:
I'm using a 700-ish mhz Dell tower with a front-mounted momentary contact power switch. There's a ribbon cable, 20-conductor or so, leading from the motherboard to a small circuit board mounted in the front case of the computer.
This little circuit board has a few LEDs (power, hard drive access) and two switches (power, reset).
I used a multimeter to figure out which pins on the motherboard are connected to the power switch. Then unplugged the ribbon cable and plugged in a two-pin connector to those two pins on the motherboard.
I drilled a small hole in the case and extended these wires to a Happ pushbutton on the top of my case.
The PC is plugged into a BITS smartstrip, so when the top-mounted button is pressed, everything comes on.
vincemash:
Is the LCG1 adequate if you are using a computer as the main device
Or do you need the LCG3?
gap:
--- Quote from: vincemash on October 15, 2004, 09:58:13 am ---Is the LCG1 adequate if you are using a computer as the main device
Or do you need the LCG3?
--- End quote ---
I dunno, sorry. To be safe, I went ahead and spent the extra three bucks and got the LCG3.