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| leapinlew:
I set my PC's to boot up when the power is turned on. I use a power entry module like this one: I flip this switch and it powers up everything. I use the front end to power off when I need to power off. There is plenty of room inside a full sized arcade to have coin mechs and a computer case. |
| superbigjay:
Lew, where did you get those switches? |
| FrizzleFried:
My horizontal cabinet (was) simply the whole case dropped in the cabinet with an L-Bracket and a thumb screw to hold it in place when I move the cabinet around. My vertcal cabinet includes a removable 2"x3" piece of plywood mounted to the inside of the cabinet, I have my motherboard, power supply, hard drive, etc. mounted on the board. A much cleaner setup IMHO. (NOTE: photo was taken before I cleaned up the wiring) As for the power switch, I wired directly to the toggle switch that came with the cabinet and set my BIOS to fire up on regain of power. I flick the original switch, everything powers up....when I am ready to power down I shutdown with my front end (MAMEWAH) then turn the switch off once my trackball light goes out (which is attached to the PC and indicates when power is off). I also wired 2 arcade buttons to the top of the cabinet...a power (which I RARELY if ever use) and a reset switch....just in case...but they are used very infrequently and my new horizontal cabinet will likely not include these two buttons. |
| david656:
well im going with a smallish bit of sheet metal on the front with all the switches on there. the way im doing it is cutting off all the wires that used to go to the case buttons and extending them to the new buttons, the reason being that i dunno where to get the MoBo connector's! but at least i can power on from the outside |
| scotthh:
--- Quote from: robot8319 on September 03, 2007, 12:12:23 am ---how do i go about turning it on with out a switch?? --- End quote --- Leapinlew's way aka BIOS setting: My BIOS has a choice for "Restore on AC Power Loss". It can be set to power on. You shut the machine off via your front end and cut the power to the entire cabinet after the PC powers down. Then when you put the power back on, the computer will boot up automatically. MrMojoZ's way aka The button: Your motherboard has a set of pins (likely 20 pins arraigned in two rows of 10). FrizzleFried's appears to be at the bottom left corner of the red motherboard in the picture. These are likely labeled: pled, speaker, ide_led, rest, pwrsw. Wire a switch or button to the power switch (pwrsw) leads and you have a power button where ever you want it. Mounting the PC: Unless you need the space in your cabinet, I don't think there's a good reason to dismantle the PC other than if it interests you to do it. One or two L-brackets or a block of wood fastened to the cabinet should keep the PC from moving. |
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