How to disable the shutdown of the computer with the button on the system unit?

Ziklon2011-01-11 11:48:56

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Ziklon, 2011-01-11 11:48:56

At a new job, many users turn off the computer with a button on the system unit. As a result, frequent problems with the HDD. Users pretend not to know that it is impossible to do this, but I think that they still continue to do it. I'm looking for a way to prohibit turning off the computer in this way. Hitting is not an option!!!

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prox, 2011-01-11
@prox

I hope this is what you were looking for

Sergey, 2011-01-11
@bondbig

only ruble. Subtract the cost of the hard drive from the salary of repeat offenders. I’m not thinking this out of my head, I actually did it when I was a system administrator a few years ago. As a hand removes all similar problems.

Puma Thailand, 2011-01-11
@opium

Well, as if in win98, when you press the shutdown button, the computer usually turns off normally (as if it climbed into start->turn off), unless of course you hold down the button for 5-10 seconds.

Ziklon, 2011-01-11
@Ziklon

They press the button until it turns off completely, apparently they are in a hurry to go home ... then in the morning a blue screen with a checkdisk or a “death screen” ... they call and ask why the computer does not turn on. I am doing educational work, but I would like to make sure.

sajgak, 2011-01-11
@sajgak

unscrew the button and turn it on when you press a button on the keyboard;)

Ziklon, 2011-01-11
@Ziklon

All that remains is to convince and intimidate ...

XaBoK, 2011-01-11
@XaBoK

Something strange has been written here. I remember that on all my new (starting from the second stump) computers in the BIOS, it became possible to control the power button. There are two options there - one for pressing quickly, the other for holding for more than 5 seconds. There is no problem to put on the sleep or soft off button. Or you can set it to none and at least push it.

amc, 2011-01-11
@amc

My dear, in the System log it is always written if the previous shutdown was not regular

Ziklon, 2011-01-11
@Ziklon

And they also overload with a reset when necessary and not necessary. There are simply a lot of aunts of pre-retirement age who cannot copy onto a USB flash drive and send mail.

Denis Radchenko, 2011-01-11
@den_rad

I had such that someone kind all the time pulled the router out of the socket. Wrapping the outlet with scotch tape and the announcement "DO NOT TURN OFF" did not help. Overclocking from the authorities helped, which at one point was left without the Internet

Cyrus, 2011-01-11
@Cyrus

All this will not help, because there is still an outlet, and just a button on the surge protector.

Michael Lobey, 2011-01-11
@Lobey

Alas, a four-second press is impossible to turn off. This is an emergency shutdown that works even on a dead computer.

Backspace, 2011-01-11
@Backspace

Brutal method: five / twelve-volt opening relays powered by a power supply unit to one of the wires of the power button: the button will work from the off state, but not from the on state.

homm, 2011-01-11
@homm

And you try to turn it on , so that when they click on it, the system starts to turn off and they do not have to wait for 4-10 seconds.

kurd, 2011-01-11
@kurd

If you do not hold 4 seconds, then everything happens! like, normally, and in all new windows. Or have I been wrong all my life

Eugene, 2011-01-12
@Nc_Soft

And I wonder if it is possible to turn on the computer with another button?

zed91, 2011-01-12
@zed91

An idea comes to mind with a key on a transistor.

TravisBickle, 2011-01-12
@TravisBickle

Hitting the hands is not an option, the option is to hit the zheppa.

nicolnx, 2011-01-12
@nicolnx

and if you go from the other side - set up automatic shutdown at $end_working_day + 5 minutes
and even if they don’t turn off the computer at all, press the button on the monitor and run home, and it will turn itself off.
And users are happy, and it's easier for the admin.

nicolnx, 2011-01-12
@nicolnx

ps: a variant with especially stubborn workaholics can also be provided by displaying a warning with the ability to cancel the shutdown of 30 seconds or something like that.

m2_viktor, 2015-06-14
@m2_viktor

As an option, you can physically disconnect pwr_sw from the motherboard, and turn it on according to the script, for example at 9:00 using wake on lan.