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rdowdy95:

How about this.....
Could you go into the BIOS and go to the option that says Power on Keyboard by pressing any button.  Then if wired to something like IPAC with the keyboard connected on the the through put, couldn't you just press any button on the cabniet says like p1 button1 and the system would boot up.  I know you would have to turn it off with the with Windows Shutdown, but still that would be pretty good.  Would that work using the BIOS power on keyboard option then just hit any button?

javeryh:

I guess it would work but I don't want the thing getting turned on all the time by random button presses from people... and by people I mean my 2-year-old daughter who presses every button she sees.   ;D  Also, I like the simple one button on/off setup...

Anyway, this is how I did it (from my project announcement thread):

These shots are from the underside of the long CP.  The red button is the power on and power off switch.  One press turns everything on and one more press turns everything off (thank god for the smart strip!). 

It was pretty easy to install - I used a 1-1/4" forstner bit to drill a hole about 1/2 way into the bottom panel (from the inside/top) and then using the center mark left by the bit, I just drilled a hole all the way through for the shaft of the button (note the tear out  :-\  - I'll touch it up later).  The reason for the "two-step" drilling of the hole is so I could get my fingers around the shaft of the button to turn the nut that secures the button in place.  It also made wiring it up a little easier.

You can't see it at all where it is located and no one will even know it is there unless I tell them.  Also, the button is quite tough to press so I'm not worried about an accidental press by someone's knee during play...



rdowdy95:

Yeah I would also like to have that on mine as well.  My question is in the wiring of the device.  I have done plenty of computers in the past.  My thing is the connector that plugs into the motherboard for the power switch.  Where do I get that kind of connector.  It is a little black connector that the two pins on the motherboard go into.  A + and a - pin.  usually this is found on the computer case connected to a computer cases power button.  It there a way to splice through that, or do you know where I could get a connector.  I am going to be using a computer case inside my cabniet, and I don't want to ruin the power button wire from the case.  Any suggestions.  I could look for an old computer case and cut one of those off of an old case and extend the wire by stripping and twisting two wires together.  One more question.  To make a wire longer.  I would take two wires strip them and then twist them.  Is there any kind of insulation to put around the twist or would I use some black electrical tape?

gamecreature:


--- Quote from: rdowdy95 on August 10, 2006, 05:58:40 pm ---Yeah I would also like to have that on mine as well.  My question is in the wiring of the device.  I have done plenty of computers in the past.  My thing is the connector that plugs into the motherboard for the power switch.  Where do I get that kind of connector.  It is a little black connector that the two pins on the motherboard go into.  A + and a - pin.  usually this is found on the computer case connected to a computer cases power button.  It there a way to splice through that, or do you know where I could get a connector.  I am going to be using a computer case inside my cabniet, and I don't want to ruin the power button wire from the case.  Any suggestions.  I could look for an old computer case and cut one of those off of an old case and extend the wire by stripping and twisting two wires together.  One more question.  To make a wire longer.  I would take two wires strip them and then twist them.  Is there any kind of insulation to put around the twist or would I use some black electrical tape?

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I actually went to the daugterboard that held the power and reset buttons and soldered my wires to the back of the board (where the power button was soldered). I don't think it matters which wire is which, as the system is only checking to see if it is closed. More info here:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=55057.0

javeryh:


--- Quote from: rdowdy95 on August 10, 2006, 05:58:40 pm ---Yeah I would also like to have that on mine as well.  My question is in the wiring of the device.  I have done plenty of computers in the past.  My thing is the connector that plugs into the motherboard for the power switch.  Where do I get that kind of connector.  It is a little black connector that the two pins on the motherboard go into.  A + and a - pin.  usually this is found on the computer case connected to a computer cases power button.  It there a way to splice through that, or do you know where I could get a connector.  I am going to be using a computer case inside my cabniet, and I don't want to ruin the power button wire from the case.  Any suggestions.  I could look for an old computer case and cut one of those off of an old case and extend the wire by stripping and twisting two wires together.  One more question.  To make a wire longer.  I would take two wires strip them and then twist them.  Is there any kind of insulation to put around the twist or would I use some black electrical tape?

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Oh, OK I get it now (I think)...  I'm not sure where you would get one of those connector things for the motherboard (I'm not sure you even need it as long as the wires you run to the pin are insulated and have no chance of accidentally touching).  I had a computer I was throwing away so I just "stole" it from there.  I did splice the two wires coming out of the little black connector to two 22 gauge wires I had left over from wiring my CPs - I twisted them together using a drill, sealed it up with black electrical tape and wired the ends to an ordinary pushbutton (a mini from Happs).  I don't think it matters at all which wire goes where.  It was the first thing I've ever spliced/hacked along with the speaker wires which I did the same thing to and it worked! 

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