wiring power and pause to same button. safe to do so?

[bossyman15]

is it safe to wire power button from PC and pause wire from IPAC4 to same button on my CP?

here's the drawing how i plan to wire it.

[mccoy178]

Is this question for real?

[bossyman15]

Is this question for real?

umm yes just to be safe than sorry.

by that respond i guess that means yes?

[AtomSmasher]

well.....it is safe to do so, it shouldn't hurt anything, but every time you try to pause a game your computer will turn off.

[bossyman15]

that's no problem i can tell winxp not to turn off when i push the button.

[Kremmit]

Then how do you turn it off?  You going to wire up another button for "off"?  And what's XP going to do when you push it, then- sleep mode?

[bossyman15]

my pc will turn off if you hold it for ~5 seconds but also doesn't mamewah have power off feature as well?

[mccoy178]

You can have mamewah escape straight to whatever you want without going through the menu.  I didn't know if you were serious because having the power button and the pause button together doesn't make much sense to me.  On a side note, I know that someone made a batch file that would make it so the escape button had to be held in for two seconds before a game would be existed to avoid accidental escapes in the heat of battle.  I plan on having a power button out of normal reach, and using a shaaazam button to escape games.  I would love to use the pause button as a shift as well so that both would have to be pressed to exit a game.  I'm still researching that option.

BTW, didn't mean to leave such a rude first response, it was my first reaction.