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Getting PC to power up...
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 15, 2003, 11:15:15 am ---There is another way. The power cable that runs from your PC's power supply to the motherboard has about 20 wires or so. if you cut the green wire and one of the black wires and hook them together than it will start automatically whenever there is a power source (i.e. when you plug the cabinet into the wall or flip the switch on the power strip). Just to make sure that your power supply is set up this way unhook it from your components and get a little piece of wire and just stick it in the end of the connector on both the green and one of the black wires. Apply power and see if the fans start up on the power supply.
This sounds a little confusing. Let me know if I'm making no sense.
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This is, of course, only to be used on ATX power supplies.
All wires are color coded on ATX PS's. Black are grounds. Not sure what the green are. Like the man said, take a short length of wire, and short the green wire with any of the black wires. It'll come on.
However, I'm not sure if it supplies power correctly to the motherboard in this state. I know it does to the drive headers. Can someone elaborate?
Frostillicus:
My computer automatically just turns on after I plug in the power cord to the wall - does anyone else's do this? it's pretty convenient.
shmokes:
Yes...that's another important thing. I would bet that if Frosty took a look in his BIOS setup he would find a setting something like "power on after power failure -- enabled". On many motherboards you can accomplish all this without any hacking so check there first. I believe that the power supply hack I'm talking about will indeed fire up the motherboard. I haven't done it, but I'm pretty sure others here have. When a motherboard fires up it pretty much does the same thing I think.
I don't know. I'm not a doctor.
Cue-Ball:
One thing to note is that you can only do the "power on after failure" trick if you're using DOS. Windows doesn't like being powered off without proper shut down. Especially Win2K or XP.
Several other people have used a relay to power up the rest of the cabinet when the PC is powered on. I'm in the process of setting up my cab this way right now. You can run a momentary switch to the outside of the cab which will operate the PC's normal power button. Then hook up the relay to turn on your power strip when the PC powers up.
Here's a link with more info and a short how-to:
http://home.bendcable.com/werstlein/
Aceldamor:
In my bios settings under the Advanced Settings, there is an option for keystroke powerup. You could change from password, any key, or disabled. I changed mine to any key and now whenever I hit a key or move a joystick on my cp, the pc powers up. Very Awsome!!!