Laptop CarPC people respond!

**Stevo759** · 12-09-2005, 08:13 PM

How do you power up and down your laptop carpc on car on and off? Thanks!

**DJiK** · 12-09-2005, 09:38 PM

Power Up: Press the power button. (You may want to extend it from the laptop's motherboard)
Power Down: Go to Start --> Shut Down --> Shift+H to Hibernate or U to Turn off

**gbh** · 12-09-2005, 10:01 PM

Startup: Have a switch in my dash wired to the power switch on the laptop. Press it to turn on, or resume from standby or hibernate.

Shutdown: Press switch to go to standby(or off depnding on settings). Or when I turn my car off power is cut and I have it set to go to standby 6 minutes after it loses external power.

**arebelspy** · 12-09-2005, 10:05 PM

Try a DSSC for startup.

Shutdown is automatic via power settings as others have noted.

-arebelspy

**Stevo759** · 12-10-2005, 12:35 AM

is it difficult to wire a switch from the button on the motherboard? Im a newb

**DarquePervert** · 12-10-2005, 06:53 AM

Search the forums. Someone posted a good guide for their laptop complete with photos. It should be similar for any laptop.

**turbocad6** · 12-10-2005, 08:24 AM

I use a full opus 150 setup with my laptop board.... starts it & shuts it down.... powers all my accy.'s & usb with room to grow...... a little overkill, but I had it from my previous install....

**pip** · 12-10-2005, 10:16 AM

I read somewhere that it is possible to set some notebooks to 'wake on ring' and use a hacked phone cable plugged into the modem port. Shutdown would be set on loss of external power.

A quick search for 'laptop wake on ring' got me:
Laptop Statup/Shutdown/standby/hibernate question
Remotely startup laptop...? (wake on lan)??
Auto-On Laptop?

There are more...but the above should give you enough to get started.

personally, I think the wake on USB option sounds interesting. Plug in a trackball & press a button to start the laptop. Depends very much on the capabilities & bios of your laptop.