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HA! I found the article again: It's in German but it basically says that you can wire that little capacitor parallel to the power switch pins and then it should work. https://www.heise.de/ct/hotline/PC-komfortabel-einschalten-2585385.html

sigh....... Oh well... Good night for now and thank you again for your kind efforts and patience. But it is a fact - my pinball cab PC does start on AC power after having been modified. I'll try to remember more what I did two years ago...

Thank you so much you for your valuable input. I appreciate it, really, and will definitely look into it. But as I said, here are some photos I just took of my already modified pinball PC. What is this round black thing with the red and black wires, going into the "SPEAKER" socket? Can that be...

If I may I'll post photos of my pinball PC tomorrow, which does exactly what I'm talking about here. Maybe you'll be able to see what the electronics guy did two years ago... Thank you so far!!

Yeah, but why can't there simply be a BIOS adjustment where you can say "Start up when AC power is applied!?! sigh I also have a virtual pinball cabinet and two years ago, an electronics shop actually managed to accomplish the startup thing with the PC in the pinball cabinet! (Sadly the...

Thanks a lot so far but I don't get it: If you can have the PC start automatically after a power loss when you apply power again (via the BIOS), then why can't you do that without a prior power loss?! Obviously, the BIOS tells the PC to start up after a sudden loss of power (or something to...

I'm building an arcade cabinet and for the real experience I want my PC to start up as soon as power is applied, i.e. I switch the master cabinet switch for everything (marquee, lights, audio amp etc.) on and the whole machine starts up - including of course the PC! I heard that you can...