pushbutton as on off switch??

[squirrellydw]

I plan on using a smartstrip in my cab and was wondering if you can wire a pushbutton to be an on/off switch?  My thought was to cut the wires to the computer switch and wire them to a pushbutton, would that work?

[squirrellydw]

forget it I found the answer.  Looks like I can as long as it an ATX motherboard

[AtomSmasher]

My thought was to cut the wires to the computer switch and wire them to a pushbutton, would that work?

Thats what I did and it works great.

[Flinkly]

i'm doing the same thing...just in case you need more proof.  it's nice.

[TOK]

I did this, and initially put it right on the back of my control panel, pretty far away from the player one controls. Didn't figure it'd be a problem until my 9 year old niece came over and started spazzing out and hitting every button within reach while playing fighting games with her dad.

I ended up moving it off the panel to top of the cabinet. Just something to keep in mind if you're going to have kids, game spazzes or both use your cabinet. 

[Orclord]

Or you have cats....

Moved mine to behind the coin door, above the coin box..

[Santoro]

Kids certainly define spazzy sometimes.

[Havok]

Yup - I have kids too. That's why my power button is way up in the upper left corner, away from little fingers. When I was mocking up the CP, they were already mashing the buttons like crazy...