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Can you start an ATX board without a power switch? Short the two power switch pins with a screw driver?

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Noriaki

Lifer
I want to test if this board, chip, RAM and Video card work without ripping apart my main rig...

I have a spare PSU...but I don't have anything for a power switch...

If I touch the two pins that are the Soft ATX power with a screw driver will that work?

(I can turn it off by the hard switch on the back of the PSU)
 
Mookow

No, it's not. Grow up a little.

Testing a PC on a desk is MUCH easier if you don't have to have the power switch from your case connected. Just a quick touch with a screwdriver & you can start it up just fine.

Viper GTS
 
Yeah maybe it is pretty ghetto, but it will save me like half an hour of taking apart my main rig and putting it back together to get a soft switch.

Besides I have a screwdriver in my hand right now...

Thanks Viper.
 
Why do I need to chill out? If I was seriously having a problem with something or someone, I would have a said a lot more & in a really mean voice.

That was my nice side.

😉

Viper GTS
 
If you can turn the board on by touching the two pins with a screw driver, than can you shut it off by touching the same two pins with a screwdriver? Or would you have to unplug it from the wall?
 
You'd probably have to hold it there for a few seconds, but it shouldn't be a problem to shut it off that way. Much easier to just switch the hard switch on the back though, especially since you'll need to do that anyway if you're pulling components.

Viper GTS
 
Viper GTS,
I was merely pointing out the fact that it was ghetto. I have no problem with ghetto hardware, as a matter of a fact, I like ghetto hardware. I have a friend whose pc was suspended, piece by piece, from the ceiling (he didnt have a case and his cats like to chew stuff, so it couldnt be anywhere near the floor). It looked cool as hell. I would do that in my dorm room, but unfortunately, its a dorm room, and my PC would quickly be in many, many more pieces than I intended.
 


<< You'd probably have to hold it there for a few seconds, but it shouldn't be a problem to shut it off that way. Much easier to just switch the hard switch on the back though, especially since you'll need to do that anyway if you're pulling components.

Viper GTS >>



Well, sometimes the power supply doesn't have a switch on the back. I have an antec 300w power supply and I don't think it has a power switch on the back.
 
I dunno about off...I didn't try as I have a hard switch on the back of the PSU...but on works great.

Thanks Viper 😀
 
I've used a screwdriver, paperclip, screw, cpu retention clip.

Usually keep an extra jumper available for just this task.
 
Do it all the time. In one crappy case I had the power switch broke, and there was no easy way to fix it (poorly designed case). I ended up just hooking up the reset button to the power switch to turn it on.
 
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