Windows 10 Power PC on from mains

[Venom]

Appreciate Chunkins build can be shut of at mains without a power down and use ASR to switch it back on, I used to do that on my other groovymame pc too.

I am currently just playing around with a Windows 10 build with a 120gb setup of coinops in a dell 9020 sff

The only pain in ass is the ASR (AC recovery) on the Dell 9020 is fine if just switch the machine off, and swicth it back on, at plug. But if I do a proper shutdown from Coinops and PC powers down, switching it on and off at wall makes no difference. This is the behaviour of the bios settings.

I dont have my cabinet on that much so prefer to be able to just switch it on and off from my plug socket that is an extension lead to inside back of the cabinet. I really dont want the kids opening up the cabinet to switch pc on.

Has anyone got any clever ideas of how I can work round this. Alternatively thought would see if I can get coinops to shut down to a dos screen, then just power off at wall, rather than a full shutdown.

I dont really want to go in the cabinet and put another button to front of cab either

This must be a common issue so welcome to suggestions.

The Retro arcade image is pretty good TBH in terms of games/videos etc

 

[Macro]

many moons ago I did a small program for a pic 16C84, to wait 1 second, press the button (figuratively speaking) and then release it again for a PC that did not have the restore AC option.

code below in case it is any use to you, I guess unless you have one sitting around it would be easier to adapt it for one of the newer pic chips

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; PC Start

LIST P=16C84

#INCLUDE p16c84.inc

ERRORLEVEL -224

__CONFIG _PWRTE_ON & _LP_OSC & _WDT_OFF

ORG 0

movlw B'00000000' ; w = 0

tris PORTA

tris PORTB

movlw B'00000100' ; pull ups active 1:32 prescalar

option

clrf PORTB

btfss INTCON, T0IF ; 1 second delay

goto $ -1

bcf INTCON, T0IF

btfss INTCON, T0IF ; 1 second delay

goto $ -1

bcf INTCON, T0IF

btfss INTCON, T0IF ; 1 second delay

goto $ -1

bcf INTCON, T0IF

incf PORTB ; turn switch on

btfss INTCON, T0IF ; 1 second delay

goto $ -1

bcf INTCON, T0IF

decf PORTB ; turn back off

goto $ ; and loop forever

end

 

[big10p]

Is it an ATX PSU? Jump the green wire on the power connector to ground.

 

[Venom]

Macro that is too clever for me, no idea what you mean !

Assume ATX its massive and has a single green , some black , purple and white wires going out the power supply to mobo

I wont ground it yet until I am sure if I am keeping this coinops or putting it to Windows 7 and using Chunkin build with it instead. Or even combining both !

But in theory...

Would I be cutting the Green and splicing it in to one of the black wires. Or just finding a ground another way.

Thanks

 

[big10p]

That's not an ATX. Some weird SFF Dell thing. This is the ATX pinout. Shorting green to ground basically fires up the PC as soon as the PSU gets mains, without having to press the power button. Possibly the green wire on yours does the same thing, but you'd need to check.

 

[Venom]

Thats fine I'll check it out, once I decided what I am doing cheers.