The LEDs show the status of power and such but have nothing to do with turning power onto the device.
That makes sense. I’ve never dealt with a laptop before so I naively assumed that this is similar to a desktop where the power switch pins are typically next to the power LED pins and never within the keyboard connector. I originally thought that the power button is connected to the small LED daughterboard or something.
So if you can trace the power button back to which of the wires on that connector they go to, you can find out which wires are needed to turn the system on/off.
Yeah I will try doing my research online first to see if I can find out about this without having to somewhat destroy the chassis to get into the wiring (or hopefully by jumping the keyboard connector). Thanks a lot!
I only ran into one old Dell that was stupid and had a hardware lock that would prevent it from booting unless the display itself was connected.
That makes sense. I’ve never dealt with a laptop before so I naively assumed that this is similar to a desktop where the power switch pins are typically next to the power LED pins and never within the keyboard connector. I originally thought that the power button is connected to the small LED daughterboard or something.
Yeah I will try doing my research online first to see if I can find out about this without having to somewhat destroy the chassis to get into the wiring (or hopefully by jumping the keyboard connector). Thanks a lot!
This is pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing!