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StripHouseBandit:

yeah that is very similiar to how i was thinking baout doing it... maybe thatsn ot such a bad idea :) the computer i bought is like a monster..it has 2.4 gig of ram in it aha, the damn thing's huge in physical for mand jsut all around. i dont know if pressed wood would hold it, so i may have to reinforce it a little....someoen did reccomend a DOS cd for me to use on my windows xp...but he warned me about how it may be dangerous to my computer but i am interested in using a dos cd.. it'd be much easier because when i flip the electric chair swithc (whic hsi what im going to use to turn it off an d on) i can hook thatu p to a power surge protector to turn on all the neon lights as well.

clanggedin:

I wired my power button to the outside of my cab too. I just used an extra arcade button and put it on the back of my cab. So technically you are still just pressing the power button on the PC, it's just been rewired. It's basically what AlexC said just use the existing connector that the power switch uses to the motorboard, but splice another switch to it that is accessable outside of the cab.


StripHouseBandit:

ehhh that's a little confusing for me bud, haha, like i said i have novice experience into lal of this, everything i know about mame has been crammed into my brain in the past couple of weeks as if it was a college course. if i used the method where i'd be pressing the power button then unfortunatley i couldn't use my electric chair switch i made. if i did use the switch, i'd have to lower it to press the button to turn it on, but that means i couldnt raise the switch up to turn it off, i'd have to move it down again, unless if i made one more power button that fucntions the same way so i can put it at the top


clanggedin:

The power switch on your computer uses a 2 pin plug. Red is 5 volts and black is ground. if you cut those wires going to the power switch in your tower and splice it to a roll or wire then you should be able to have enough length to reach you electric chair type switch and use that.

It doesn't matter what switch you use as long it passes the current to power on the computer.

RayB:

I say to hell with the harddrive, I just cut the power.  ;D

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