Switches..

[Skot_U]

Are the power and reset buttons, push on/push off switches, or momentary switches??

[John Prophet]

momentary

When I have a motherboard just sitting outside a case to test it...I just use a screwdriver or hard drive jumper to just momentarily short the pins and then I take the screwdriver away etc.
They just make a momentary short to give a signal to the motherboard etc.

JP

[davidamarkley]

AT power supplies = Push-on / Push-off

ATX power supplies = Normally open / Momentary closed

David

[John Prophet]

yes, I wasnt thinking of the older AT style stuff....basically you can tell anyway by this.....if it makes a loud "click" and the button stays depressed..its a real switch..if its a little bitty thing with no spring tension at all etc..its momentary, lol.

JP

[davidamarkley]

yep, didn't mean/want to deride your post, just thought that it might help him out not knowing what style of PSU he has...

Yeah, the click/no-click method works most of the time...

David

[John Prophet]

Ahhhh, but then again, now that I think about it....the power switches nowadays also have the little feature where you have to hold them in for 4 seconds to shut some comps down etc....so in that respect they might not be true "momentary" switches...but they definitely arent "power" switches..as far as they dont have 110 volts going thru them etc....they only carry little signal voltage to the motherboard, which tells the power supply to kick on or off etc.

JP

[Skot_U]

So i should be able to take a momentary switch and cut the wires from the default switch, hook them up, and it'll work? Eh?

[John Prophet]

yep. Especially for the reset button. The switches only have to make a momentary contact to do their jobs.

The only question might be if you use the function of your power switch where you hold the button in for 4 seconds to power off. If you just use the power button by pressing it and releasing it (like normal) then it will work. I rarely use the 4 second hold down to shut off function anyway, so they would work fine for me.

Im not sure of the exact switch you are going to use, maybe some "momentary" switches can be held "pressed" to keep the contact, if so it will even work for the 4 second hold function etc.

JP

[Skot_U]

Thanks john - I don't really care much about the 4 sec hard boot, so a momentary switch should work great! I just hope I don't fry anything :-/ My friend would probably be a little angry with me! Thanks to all. I'll post a website with pics of my project soemtime....

[Dj-Icer]

Those are moment-ary
I dont know the others but, mine if push for 4 sec, it will turned off. It will never turned off completely if you pressing it once. If twice, it would turn out like stanby, though I never wanted to do that often
I set 5 minutes for my monitor to turn off.