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How do you guys shut down your machine?
2PacMan:
I'm to the point where i need to figure out how to shut down my computer once it's inside my cabinet. I have a button that will turn it on from the cab....but how do i shut it down? I can turn off the computer fine, but what about windows?
Don't i have to properly shut down windows through the start menu...i can't just cut the power, right?? I'm running windows XP, so the ctl+alt+del doesn't power down windows...any ideas?? I'm sure there's an easy way i'm just overlooking..
grueinthebox:
This is posted to the wrong forum, but...
What front end are you using? Using MAMEwah, you can actually map a button (or combination of buttons) to shut down windows. I've just got mine setup as a really obscure button combination.
Chris:
If you press the power button in XP on most recent motherboards, it sends a shutdown signal to the system, and if all running apps support that signal, the system will shut down cleanly. MAMEWah will do this if you run it in the startup group, but if you run it as shell it will not.
--Chris
nostrebor:
I have my Pause button mapped to shut down if I press it while in Mamewah. Changed the BIOS settings to power up automatically when electricity hits the power supply. Just hacked a remote toggle switch into a standard power strip cord. Easy, cheap, simple.
TOK:
The rather cheap Foxcon motherboard in my machine has the option of shutting the machine down if it isn't used for a set period of time. Since it's plugged into the Smartstrip the whole thing shuts down after one hour.