[Rik]

Kids! They can be lovely little bundles of joy one moment, then the most annoying thing on the planet the next.

Picture it, you are sitting in-front of your PC with your 20 page email on screen with your mouse pointer poised over the send button when your toddler walks in the room, sees the button on the front of your PC, and presses it.

You yell out "Nooooooooooooooooo, all that work!!" as your PC begins the shutdown process.


I have a simple yet effective mod that will make that little episode almost impossible.

All you do is join your reset button (lets face it, it doesn't really get used at all) to your power button so that both need to be pressed in order to turn the PC on or off.

To achieve this, refer to your mobo manual and identify the power and reset buttons wiring.

You then need to remove one from the power button connector and then both from the reset button connector. Next, fit one of the reset button wires into the power button socket, then join the 2 remaining terminals (one from each button) together. A simple way to achieve this is to strip a small length of scrap wire and use it to tie the terminals together. Finally, insulate it, this is very important as you don't want it to short to the metal of your case.

Once this has been completed and everything (except the original reset switch plug that is) has been plugged back in you will have your child proof mod completed.

The PC must now be turned on or off by either pressing and holding one button then pressing the other quickly or by pressing them both together.


I will just add, this is all my own idea and own work. I have not seen this idea anywhere on the net so if someone spots the idea elsewhere, i haven't read it.

[Edit] I will add a pictorial guide just as soon as i can get hold of my digital camera.

[samjohnson]

Nice idea Rik! I would say if you have small kids then that would come in handy. As there isn't any small children in my house, then I won't need to use it. And I like my reset button. If something goes wrong I don't have to hold my dang power button in for like an eternity to get the thing to shut off or restart. But it may come in handy one day.

[Albert Lionheart]

Cool idea Rik - could you now provide a fix to stop small fingers posting credit cards into the floppy drive, please?
Sam - your BIOS might let you have an instant off setting for the power switch, perhaps?

[Rik]

Superglue?!?!

[Albert Lionheart]

To glue the child's fingers to the credit cards - good lateral thinking there Rik

[Rik]

LMAO

[Albert Lionheart]

Like a dog guard in the car is not to protect the car or passengers from the dog but to protect the valuable dog from the passengers.

[Rik]

Want to know how i solve the floppy drive problem? Easy, i don't have one fitted.

[tomrca]

i don't think that anything built for adults is childproof.

i seen a man work hard to remove a sticky plastic ad from a bus window using a spray and stanley blade scraper, a few days later on a different bus i seen a child aged about 4, peel off the same ad poster with his fingers

[samjohnson]

LOL superglue!!! I don't have one so no need to worry.
Albert, I might have a setting in the bios but I am not sure. Don't really need to change it though, cuse I got the restart button, works good.