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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: babydickonboard on May 04, 2008, 12:21:47 am
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I was just wondering what you guys think about "hard" shutdowns of a pc while in mame. (i.e. pulling the powerplug) I want to wire everything in my cab up to a single switch, and have the pc set to restore power after failure. I'm a bit worried about the computer on shut down tho. I'm sure that MAME isn't writing much at the time, but im worried about my HDD crashing.
I was looking through the forum, and someone was talking about decreasing winXP HDD cache write thru device manager->disk drive->property's->policy. I was just wondering if anyones had any troubles with there PCs doing this, or if there are some other things you've done to help prevent damage.
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This isn't a concrete answer but I was always under the assumption that as long as the hard drive was not being written to you were ok. So with Mame I guess the only writing would be to a high score file. SO as long as you exit out to your front end I would think you would be fine.
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I have had Mame machines that have endured hard power-offs for years and years with no errors. A mame cabinet isn't writing a thing other than high score files.
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thats what I was thinking too, I just wanted to be sure cause I want everything hooked up to one master switch thats tied to my powerstrip. I was think that I was going to have to get/make a smartstrip, but this should work. Thanks for the input!