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Anyone know where you can get these Standalone without buying a case for $100?...

My Issue: My power button shorts out every time I turn my computer on and so it shuts it off right away. I have a temp fix where I unplug the power button from the mother board when I turn computer on, but that's a hassle. Having to plug it in and unplug it every single time.

Either leave your pc on. You can also try 2nd hand sites like ebay/craigslist or look around at garage sales? xD I dunno, you could just buy a cheap 2nd hand case and break the thing out.

Problem I'm having is finding out the connector they use on Ebay/craigslist.

Every case has a different power button..so..

Swap your reset and power buttons on the motherboard, use reset as power.

I don't have a reset. The Reset/Power Button are one in the same. Which is why I need to unplug it every time I turn my computer on. It resets it pretty much after like 5 seconds and there is nothing physically wrong with it. The buttons I find are solely power buttons and I can't find one matching my motherboard. Kinda blows. I'm looking to upgrade my motherboard soon anyways to support 2nd geni7, but if a power button is around $10, I'd rather get rid of the hassle. I keep finding 6pin connectors, I need a 7 pin

I had a problem with my power button too, and I fixed it with one of those things that's under the keyboard keys, now it works fine, try to fix it, or remove the power button and use that little button under it if you don't care about the look

Not sure if i am getting you right :

But on my laptop (windows 7) :

@ Control panel -> All control panel items -> power options -> system settings .

I go there and i can choose what the power button does (including "do nothing") .

This will disallow the power button to disturp you , hope it helps .

Btw not sure how it works in anything other than windows 7 though .

Easy take a screw driver and touch the 2 pins OR wire it so you have the 2 cables on the outside of the case. All you have to do to turn the computer on is to touch the 2 wires together.

Problem?

i think your confusing what the power button does...
the power button connects 2 pins on the mobo temporarily, are you sure its the power button that is causing the problem....

if you want a fix just soulder two pieces of electrically conductive metal to the pins the power switch should be connected to, then you can either buy a simple switch from a hardware store and soulder that to the two ends of the metals OR you can just simply touch them together when u want ur pc on...

i have seen someone tape the wires so the outside of the case (making sure that the outside is plastic -.-) so that it requires force to actually touch the pieces together so they dont accidently touch... good luck anyway

That or set it in the bios to always power on once it has power.

My power supply has no off switch except the one connected to the mother board. Kinda of stupid, but I haven't had any kinda of issues. 1/10 times I plug it in without the power button, it turns on, but I think that's due to it trying to resume a previous session or something.


100% unplugging it solves the problem of it shutting my computer off. I think in the next couple days I'll try taking it out, but it's so embedded behind a bunch of stuff that I'm gonna have to pull my case apart just to get it out and see what the deal is. I know some have a compression switch behind the "button" part of it, maybe mine is stuck. So when I turn it on, it gets the signal that I'm holding the button down and it powers off. Problem is though, this started happening when I was nowhere near my computer so I didn't press the button down to get it stuck. I'm just glad this is the problem, I took EVERYTHING out of my computer including the cpu the find the issue. I only tried unplugging the power button as a last resort as I didn't think it would work..