> I am currently in the middle of a design for a simple 4 player cab hooked up to a > LCD. I thought it might be nice if I could have a button out of the way on the > control panel that would put the computer into sleep mode. > > This would allow the lcd to go to power save and then the next time someone wants to > play they can just hit one of the buttons to wake the system back up. > > I plan on using an I-Pac 4 and I believe I have about eight spots on the board left > over after I setup all my player stations as well as the MAME control keys I will > want access to on the control panel.
You could run the leads for the PC's power button way up there, and then configure your OS to go to sleep/wake-up when the power button is pressed. This would be outside the I-PAC though.
- Stiletto
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