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garnerb350:
Turnarcades has a great point...plain and simple. Yeap, you will get cool brownie points when your friends come over and party and marvel over that you have your own arcade....but at the end of the day, when you clean up...that cab is still going to be at your house, and if it breaks...you have to fix it. Nobody else...Make it simple.
Section_25:
Thanks for the replies !!

I think I have almost everything together for this project. A few days ago I gutted the inside of the machine of the mb and monitor, and vacuumed it out.
Here is a picture of it if your interested - http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii133/Section_25/DSC00719.jpg

I am going to be running the Game Ex front-end program  with the cabinet. I have Game Ex about 50% configured the way I want it, but I had a question about what some of you thought about how I should power-on the cabinet. I am going to install a widescreen 22' monitor in the cabinet along with the computer, but I want both of them to power off and on with just one button or something from the outside of the cabinet. A few people suggested "modding" the monitor and the computer motherboard to run off the same switch, but I'm not sure how to go about doing this. The monitor seems pretty simple, but for the computer to power on and off with a button or switch press seems like it would be tricky. I'm sure lot's of people around here have a solution for this and I wanted some ideas of how I should approach it. Thanks in advance for your suggestions!  :)
Turnarcades:
If you are using a PC monitor it should automatically go into standby anyway onpower down, at which point you turn it off at the wall. No need to go the trouble of wiring a switch. PC's aren't truly off when powered down and still draw a little power, so why bother turning the monitor off?
Section_25:

--- Quote from: Turnarcades on March 15, 2009, 10:52:43 pm ---If you are using a PC monitor it should automatically go into standby anyway onpower down, at which point you turn it off at the wall. No need to go the trouble of wiring a switch. PC's aren't truly off when powered down and still draw a little power, so why bother turning the monitor off?

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I'm not sure I'm understanding what you mean. If my computer is inside of the cabinet how will I go about turning it on. Turning it off would be fairly easy using the mouse I plan to have in a drawer under my control panel, but to turn it on I would have to press the power button on the computer itself, which will be inside the cabinet. Between thinking about what parts I needed for this project, and configuring the front-end program, then configuring the control pad to work with mame and the front end program, it's becoming a real brain twister...haha I don't even want to think about configuring all the buttons and joysticks on the control panel, I'm sure I will have alot of issues and alot of trial and error  :dizzy:
Blanka:
An ArcadeVGA card is only of use for real arcade monitors. For all other stuff, any reasonable PCI-E card or on board graphics will do fine.
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