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MAME Advice, Power ON/OFF switch
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: rdmustang on March 07, 2006, 12:48:26 pm ---If you want a more professional solution (one also easier for idiots like myself) you can just get a smart strip (http://www.bitsltd.net/SmartStrip/index.htm)to cut power to speakers, tv, and marquee when the computer is turned off.. That's how I'm doing it.. I have 2 arcade buttons on the back (1 power and 1 reset) which powers my computer which is plugged into the smart strip. When the computer turns on everything turns on. When the computer turns off everything turns off.. Nice and easy!
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Thats what I did and I wouldn't do it any other way. It works great and is an easy 1 button power solution.
Capthowdy:
that sounds perfect then. Exactly what I need. I'll just wire some buttons to the computer. That's easy enough. Thanks for the help.
Taborious:
I've got an even easier solution. My cabinet is is a very tight spot so I can't get behind it to get tot he power strip and I didn't want to be re-wriing my PC switches. So what did I do? I used a power strip but then plugged the power strip into a remote power switch, you know like they use for xmas lights and what not just hit the "power on" on the remote and it supplys power to the power strip. works for both power on and power off.
As mentioned in the begging of the post I have my BIOS set to power on when power is supplied. Only thing I have to do is power the computer down before powering off the power switch which there are several ways to do this without going into windows. but Im not going to get into all of them just search this board there are lots of posts on the subject.
my 2 cents...
jelwell:
--- Quote from: StripHouseBandit on March 06, 2006, 02:29:34 pm ---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?
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To get an "arcade feel" take a look at real arcade machines. They all have power buttons. I converted a cabinet - so my powerswitch was actually inside the coin door. So I just wired that momentary switch to my PC. My friend also did a conversion and his power switch was "hiding" on top of the unit with an arcade pushbutton sunk into the roof of the cabinet.
Joseph Elwell.
msingleton1977:
For those of you who want to shut down Windows XP SP3 safely this is how you do it:
From a command prompt, add this registry key:
reg add “HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT” /v DontPowerOffAfterShutdown /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Then, run the command “shutdown /s /t 0” any time you want to see the “It’s now safe to turn off your computer.” If you click on Start, Shut Down it will still power off the computer. You have to use a batch file or put the command in your front end.
I'm doing this to shut down my cabinet along with this Belkin BG108000-04 Conserve Energy-Saving Surge Strip. It comes with a remote control so no wiring!
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001GQ2W6W/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=KUED1HIOQ50J&coliid=I3415LEF31ZHM8
Monty
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