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Remap the case reset button?

Kit Chan
By Kit Chan
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I've nearly finished an HTPC build, however I need to order a 12.7mm blu ray drive bezel and all of the sellers are on holiday for the rest of the month, in-addition to the diceroll number of weeks I need to wait for anything to arrive from China (still waiting for the sata to slim sata adapter I ordered in December) The case comes with a placeholder drive bay insert which I think would look good as a drive bezel, so I was thinking I could trim it down and use double sided tape to use that as my bezel. However, it doesn't have an eject button, so I would like to reconfigure the reset button to act as an eject button. The reset button actually has a triangle inside a circle icon which looks like the designer had an eject button in mind.

 

Any suggestions on how I could do this?

 

Relevant specs:

Case: Silverstone ML-09

MB: ASUS ROG Strix B450i

OS: Windows 10

 

I know there's an option in power settings to change the power button's behavior, but it's restricted to a few options and there is no such option for the reset button.

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the reset button just shorts two pins when you press it down, so if that's how the reject button works, just wire that to the drive.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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15 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

the reset button just shorts two pins when you press it down, so if that's how the reject button works, just wire that to the drive.

How do I wire it to the drive? That sounds like a complicated drilling and soldering job to get it to the PCB in the drive.

 

Is there another connector on the motherboard I could use?

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17 minutes ago, Kit Chan said:

How do I wire it to the drive?

However the stock reject button on the drive is wired? Seems like you're not planning something I had in mind

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

However the stock reject button on the drive is wired? Seems like you're not planning something I had in mind

It's a slim sata drive.

 

 Can't be assed playing the modern search algorithm game enough to find a 12.7mm drive teardown. But even on a full sized drive it's soldered on and it will be even trickier with a slim drive, escpecially since the PCB which the button is connected to is in the moving disc tray.

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I've checked and there's no way I can fit a cable through to where the button connects in my 12.7mm drive.

 

Is there anywhere I can buy a USB programmable button? I have an unused USB 2.0 header so I could connect the button internally and mod pins for the reset button to it

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