IS7-G Front Panel Connections/LEDs

[Robert Van Vugt]

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

 

[TomG]

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.

 

[Richard Hopkins]

"Robert Van Vugt" wrote:

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????

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.

 

[TomG]

I wondered if they were still implementing the keylock on that header as I saw undocumented pins... thanks for the info, Richard.

 

[Richard Hopkins]

"TomG" wrote:

I wondered if they were still implementing the keylock on that header as I saw undocumented pins... thanks for the info, Richard.

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