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Arcade Turns Itself On
deweyhewson:
Hey everyone,
My arcade I finished a couple months ago has been running great, but one problem I've ran into is that it likes to turn itself on from time to time. My internals are as follows: PC into master outlet on SmartStrip, Monitor/Speakers/Marquee Light run into the other outlets. This works fine for turning the whole system on and off with the power button I wired up. My power button is just a normal pushbutton wired to the two wires for the jumper switch on the motherboard.
I can't for the life of me figure out why the system will just turn on, though! Sometimes when I shut it down it immediately turns itself back on, other times it could stay off for 8 hours before turning on.
Sleep mode is disable on the PC, and there are no services running which would turn the machine on, either. Can anyone help?!?
SavannahLion:
Weird, haven't heard that one in a while.
Had this problem for years with an IBM Aptiva. It would just mysteriously power itself on. Turns out it was my fridge. Every time my fridge kicked on the PC would power up.
If you Google for an answer now, you'll find most responses relate to the BIOS and things like WoL or timers or power on fail features. The Aptiva has none of these since the BIOS predated most of these features.
I would start with the obvious and check the BIOS for anything that powers on the PC. Make sure it truly is powered down and not just sleeping either.
Failing that, move the cab to a different circuit or add a UPS to the mix and see what happens.
It'd be useful if you gave us the specifics on the motherboard model you have.
SavannahLion:
Oh and double check your wiring. Make sure there's no short somewhere.
deweyhewson:
Thanks for getting back to me. I have an ASUS A8V-X Motherboard. It's basically the A8V, only with an AGP slot instead of a PCI-E.
The only place I could think of there being a short is on the power switch to the motherboard. I've tried disconnecting that and I don't think it solved it, but I will try it again just to make sure. And yeah, sometimes it does seem like if another device comes on the arcade will kick on, but I haven't been able to 100% verify that.
It's so bizarre. I have 15 years experience with computer hardware and software and I've never before encountered this outside of either a setting in the OS or the BIOS, neither of which is the case here. (Power options are all disabled in the BIOS, and I have no services, tasks, or power settings that would turn the computer on in Windows.)
ASUS A8V-Motherboard
Windows XP SP3
opt2not:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=77668.0
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