Turning on a PC without a button?

jongeeone · 8 Feb 2009 at 12:34

Basically the button has gone on 1 of my PC's.

How/Can i turn it on without a power button?

Thanks

[Robster] · 8 Feb 2009 at 12:37

screwdriver to the contacts on the motheboard?

make a new button?

RJC · 8 Feb 2009 at 12:48

The above or does the board have in-built buttons

jongeeone · 8 Feb 2009 at 12:59

The board is a Asus A8N Sli Premium thing.

Screwdriver didnt work... hmmpf.

J.B · 8 Feb 2009 at 13:00

Screwdriver across the mobo contacts, a classic move.

You could probably buy a new switch to go behind the button in the long term. Might be easier to buy a new case though.

EDIT

jongeeone said:
The board is a Asus A8N Sli Premium thing.

Screwdriver didnt work... hmmpf.

It worked when I owned that bored, check you are shorting the right pins, maybe try another driver or a paper clip, all the switch does is short out those 2 pins for a second, so putting a screwdriver across them to complete the circuit should have the same effect.

pastymuncher · 8 Feb 2009 at 13:29

Switch the power switch with the re-set switch or has that gone too?

eddie86 · 8 Feb 2009 at 13:52

Is your keyboard PS-2 connected?

With my old Athlon 1800+ computer, you could just hit the space bar and it fired up!