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MAME Advice, Power ON/OFF switch
StripHouseBandit:
hey guys, i've been posting m yass off over a ton of forums all over the web, and this one seems like my best bet. first i just want to start off and say that i am one of these losers that barely knows anything about mame and arcade building but has the passion and drive to build the most awesome crappy looking machine ever known to man.
the problem: ...i need to design a way of shutting the computer off AND ON in a >SAFE< way.... someone suggested i adjust the BIOS power management settings to "restart on power loss" meaning whenever i stop the electric circuit going to the computer by pressing an off/on switch o na power surge protector or something like that. the computer will of course shut off, now if i turn it bck on the computer will immediately start back up, this sounded great at first, unti li realized that if you shut it down this way it's no different than pulling the computer's power cord from the wall outlet whic hwil leventually screw up my hard drive. are there any creative ideas on how to shut it on or off? any help would be much appreciated
i really hope someoen can help me haha, cause at the moment my project is at a dead hault because of this problem, and because my hot rod didnt arrive in the mail yet. i think when the hotrod company comeso ut with that trackball their working on i'll take the joypad apart and create my own custom box for it....even though i have novice experience with this i must say i am proud of my dog heap of an arcade :)...especially the features ive added to it!
clanggedin:
iF you are going to run mame in Windows, then you can select Windows to shut down when the power button is hit on the tower. You should have this option in Properties/Advanced - Power Buttons.
I hope that helps.
StripHouseBandit:
yeah it's windows xp. but thats just it...i dont want to hit the power button, it seems to take out that arcade feel, i would like to think of a way if i can somehow build a button inside the arcade, the only thing i've thought of so far is to create a button attatched to a narrow spring loaded rod that'd attatched to the pc computer on/off button, kind of silly, but at least the button is built into the arcade cab. ...jus twondering but how do you others do it?
AlexC:
I have mine under DOS in Win98 and have a switch on top just like a real game, since it's dos, no shutdown time needed just press the switch and it shuts off. The switch is hooked up straight to the motherboard.
2PacMan:
I just pushed the computer tower all the way up to the front on the inside portion of the cab....then measured where the on/off button on the computer tower was and drilled a hole and stuck a button on the front of the cab. Don't even need any kind of switches or anything. The button on the outside of the cab pushes on the on/off button on the computer tower. I just screwed a board into the base of the inside of the cab to prevent the computer tower from slipping back. Works awesome and is a super easy solution to turning your MAME machine on and off. Alot easier than all the wiring/hacking posts i see.....not that there's anything wrong with that, just too complex for my liking.
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