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PC power on/off switch WITHOUT modifying PC motherboard/switch
meany:
Just have the power switch of the PC assesable and press the buttom. I have my pc facing the back of my cabinet. I drilled a hole through the cabinet right in front of the PC power button. To turn on all I do is stick my finger threw the drilled hole and press the PC power button.
edub:
Lots of good ideas here. Thank you. This is the beauty of forums.
I think the best solution for my setup would be to have the fronted (Maximus Arcade, MA) be able to shut down windows as its "exit application". I don't know how to do this yet, but posted the question in that forum. If that is possible, then simply mapping a button (Exit) or (Quit) on the admin panel to "Ctrl-Q" in MA would do the POWER OFF for me. No access to the power button would be necessary. If the PC at this point was plugged into the smart strip "control socket", everything else would power down also. Clean. But wait...then how do I power it back up?
For POWER ON, I could modify the marquee light switch to a momentary switch and wire it to a POWER ON button on the cab. If the light is plugged into the "control" socket on a smart strip, it would then power everything else up (including the PC and boot up MA and away I go). Ok, but how do I power down? Well, I hit the "exit" button for MA, it shuts down the PC. I then hit the POWER OFF button for the marquee light and everything else powers down. So, with one "POWER" button (on/off) hooked to the marquee light (which is plugged into the control socket on the smart strip), I can POWER ON with one press of a button "POWER" and when I want to power off, it is a two-step process - exit MA which hopefully will shutdown windows for me and turn off the PC, then hit the POWER button which turns OFF the marquee and everything else.
Anyone see anything wrong with this idea? Other suggestions?
This avoids any modification of the real PC power button (which is a pain inside a Dell Zino HD - not impossible, just intrusive), provides a two-step shutdown (which I definitely want - in order to shut down windows 7 properly). If MA cannot perform a shutdown as its "exit application", then I'll need to rethink this solution for power OFF.
Thanks again for the ideas thus far. I wouldn't have been able to wrap my brain around this at all without your comments and ideas.
Cheers,
edub
Donkbaca:
I see problems:
1) You can't modify the marquee light to be a momentary switch to turn on the light without some serious wiring, its probably a SPST switch, which doesn't really matter, you could still use it as you want to, you just couldn't use an arcade button. You have to modify your computer so that it turns on when it receives power.
2) I think Gameex lets you shutdown everything from the FE in case you cant with MA
Generic Eric:
When I read your post, I thought this is what you wanted:
It wires right into the header on your motherboard:
http://www.mnpctech.com/casemodblog/2011/01/19/most-popular-switch-for-pc-modding-illuminated-vandal-resistant-switch-by-bulgin/
wp34:
--- Quote from: Generic Eric on February 24, 2011, 07:58:54 pm ---When I read your post, I thought this is what you wanted:
It wires right into the header on your motherboard:
http://www.mnpctech.com/casemodblog/2011/01/19/most-popular-switch-for-pc-modding-illuminated-vandal-resistant-switch-by-bulgin/
--- End quote ---
That is pretty sweet.
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