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There's another adapter you can get to solve the power button issue! There are PCI slot brackets with power and reset buttons. https://www.highspeedpc.com/ATX

There's another adapter you can get to solve the power button issue! There are PCI slot brackets with power and reset buttons. https://www.highspeedpc.com/ATX_Power_Bracket_p/atxbracket.htm https://www.highspeedpc.com/ATX_Power_Bracket_p/atxbracket.h...

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
What is that supposed to be for? I only see > Also great for isolating problem case switches! ... Which implies that that's not the primary use they envisioned.
- JonathonW 7y ago
  Exactly what it says in the first line: motherboard power control without a case. Their main product appears to be an open-air ATX "case", which basically amounts to a motherboard mount, a fan mount, a rail to support PCI cards, and a mount point or two for hard drives, without side walls and without a power button. So they also sell a power button mounted onto a PCI bracket, to slot into an open slot on the case's PCI rail.
  - AstralStorm 7y ago
    That thing is called a test bench.
- he_is_legend 7y ago
  I have one. I have a PC tower case with extra cages for holding hard disks - 4 cages with 4 drives each fill the front of the case. However that meant moving the slot where the power switch and front USB connectors were. I didn't need the front USB headers, and I also didn't want to cut a hole in the case, so moving the power switch to a empty PCI bracket in the back was the perfect option.
- OJFord 7y ago
  If I got one of those I could throw away the old screwdriver I currently use to turn on the PC that sits in a half-built (it has a chassis & base, no sides) case I never finished.
  - franga2000 7y ago
    Only a few months ago, after over 10 years of poking screwdrivers at FP headers, it finally occurred to me that, since it's all standard sizing, I could just cut one of the 100s of dupont jumper cables I have lying around the EE lab and solder a push button to it. It took a whole 3 minutes of work (including waiting for the iron to heat up) and I have no idea why it never occurred to me before...
    - nkrisc 7y ago
      Huh, that might be fun to make a giant, novelty "ON" button to put on my desk. I guess I never really thought about it, but the power button really just bridges the two power pins, right? Pretty obvious but never gave it a thought. You can probably guess I don't do much work with electronics.
      - OJFord 7y ago
        Yep, it's a 'momentary push-to-make' if you want a couple of search terms. i.e. after press it returns to its previous state (momentary), and on press it 'makes' (as opposed to 'breaks') the circuit, or 'bridge' between pins as you said. Which is why my screwdriver works - I momentarily hold it across the pins, making a connection between them.
    - OJFord 7y ago
      Yeah, I really should - I even bought one for it all those years ago that I was working on this thing. But, y'know, it's not hard enough to pick up the screwdriver and poke (I do keep it right there, solely for that purpose) that I've bothered.

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago

What is that supposed to be for? I only see > Also great for isolating problem case switches! ... Which implies that that's not the primary use they envisioned.

JonathonW 7y ago
Exactly what it says in the first line: motherboard power control without a case. Their main product appears to be an open-air ATX "case", which basically amounts to a motherboard mount, a fan mount, a rail to support PCI cards, and a mount point or two for hard drives, without side walls and without a power button. So they also sell a power button mounted onto a PCI bracket, to slot into an open slot on the case's PCI rail.
- AstralStorm 7y ago
  That thing is called a test bench.
he_is_legend 7y ago
I have one. I have a PC tower case with extra cages for holding hard disks - 4 cages with 4 drives each fill the front of the case. However that meant moving the slot where the power switch and front USB connectors were. I didn't need the front USB headers, and I also didn't want to cut a hole in the case, so moving the power switch to a empty PCI bracket in the back was the perfect option.
OJFord 7y ago
If I got one of those I could throw away the old screwdriver I currently use to turn on the PC that sits in a half-built (it has a chassis & base, no sides) case I never finished.
- franga2000 7y ago
  Only a few months ago, after over 10 years of poking screwdrivers at FP headers, it finally occurred to me that, since it's all standard sizing, I could just cut one of the 100s of dupont jumper cables I have lying around the EE lab and solder a push button to it. It took a whole 3 minutes of work (including waiting for the iron to heat up) and I have no idea why it never occurred to me before...
  - nkrisc 7y ago
    Huh, that might be fun to make a giant, novelty "ON" button to put on my desk. I guess I never really thought about it, but the power button really just bridges the two power pins, right? Pretty obvious but never gave it a thought. You can probably guess I don't do much work with electronics.
    - OJFord 7y ago
      Yep, it's a 'momentary push-to-make' if you want a couple of search terms. i.e. after press it returns to its previous state (momentary), and on press it 'makes' (as opposed to 'breaks') the circuit, or 'bridge' between pins as you said. Which is why my screwdriver works - I momentarily hold it across the pins, making a connection between them.
  - OJFord 7y ago
    Yeah, I really should - I even bought one for it all those years ago that I was working on this thing. But, y'know, it's not hard enough to pick up the screwdriver and poke (I do keep it right there, solely for that purpose) that I've bothered.