IS7-G Front Panel Connections/LEDs

Okay - looking at the adobe PDF manual for this board (IS7-G) I see pins for
the Suspend LED but none for the front panel suspend switch. Is there a
onboard connector for the suspend switch? Also I know this is a bit old but
same goes for keyboard lock switch connector? I would guess the keyboard
lock switch is no more but since it has support for a suspend LED it would
be reasonable to have a connector for the suspend switch????

Robert

 

I agree that it appears that the keyboard lock is no longer implemented. as
for the suspend switch, 98 and XP and I believe Win2K as well all have the
ability to reprogram the main power button to either suspend or hibernate as
well as shut down. that is the approach I have taken with setting it to
suspend. if I really want to power down, then I either use a software app
that has the ability to shut things down, suspend or whatever with a
shortcut on the desktop or I just use the start menu approach.

there are replacements for the Shutdown.exe program that can implement any
manner of shut down, suspend, hibernate all via shortcut on the desktop.

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There is no header for the suspend button. However, hardware keylock *is*
implemented. It's on pins 22 and 24 of FPIO1 (in other words the two pins
between the power LED and the front of the board).

The reason there's still a suspend LED header despite no hardware switch is
that this functionality is commonly handled directly by the OS or a
dedicated button on the keyboard nowadays.
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I wondered if they were still implementing the keylock on that header as I
saw undocumented pins... thanks for the info, Richard.

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No worries Tom. Same place the keylock header's been since the good old days
of the BX6. Happy memories!
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