[SOLVED] Wonky Power Button - Antec Sonata

[Wilcal]

Power button on my Antec Sonata 3 500 case is not working most of the time. Can anyone give me a clue as to how difficult this is to get to and replace? Source for a new one?

 

[Lutfij]

You won't be able to source a new button that's meant for the case. you could solder on another momentary switch or even source an anti vandal switch and mod the case to allow for said switch to go on but in reality, I think you could source a new cheap case and stuff that inside the new case and be done with it.

Speaking of which, what are the specs to your system's innards?

 

[Wilcal]

Damn! Im almost done getting it all together....last thing was to get a graphics card...Just loaded the OS's (dual boot W10 and XP)...Didnt have any problems until then ...but then again, i only started it a couple of times to run through the bios.
As a temporary likely now permanent solution the power button is discon but the reset button has been connected in it place.
Bought the system used with no HD/OS. Antec Sonata 3 500 case, Gigabyte GA Z77 DS3H MB, 16Gb Ram, DVD burner and Antec Earthwatts 500W PSU. I5 3570K CPU.
Added from my old system(also in an antec case):
CMedia PCI Sound card with Game port(works when booted in XP), a second burner. A Floppy drive (converted to run through USB) . Have also put in 2 1TB HD. Planning on a GTX 960/950/750Ti Graphics card as they are pretty much the last to have XP drivers).
It is to replace my older LGA775 system that is dual boot. In fact im on it now but the MB is failing. No longer recognizes anything in the PCIe slot, wont dual channel the memory in it...
Decided to get almost as new as i could and still be able to run XP. I keep XP to play old W98 era games with legacy game play hardware. Expected to run it until i was too feeble to care- and im old enough to see it coming.