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How do you turn off your PC-based arcade?
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Me = same as Mr Wilson above. That way there is one "power" switch for the whole cab, and a quick reboot just involves confirming exit from the FE, then flipping the switch off then on again - but rebooting should be rare unless I'm maintaining the cab.
I also wired in a switch along the monitor power lead so I can cycle that on its own, which is needed for forcing a degauss during monitor rotation.
pmc:
I use a SmartStrip and Mala. Shutdown by hitting the ESC button and the whole cabinet goes down right from the front-end. I love that.
-pmc
BORIStheBLADE:
I have a power strip that half of it is powered by usb. So if I turn on my arcades pc the usb signals the powerstrip and turns on the switched side of it. So my monitor and speakers turn on. What I'm doing for turning off my arcade is putting my pc into hibernate mode instead of shutting it completely down or putting it into standby mode. With hibernation you can unplug your pc and it will still open to the last thing it was doing.
zaphod:
Turn off?!?!?!? Why would you ever want to do that? :)
kelemvor:
Anyone use a monitor that doesn't have a power button that actually clicks in for on and back out for off? I want to use an LCD but if it's off and I just give it power back, it won't turn itself on. Not sure how to get around that yet...
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