Hp Pavilion ZE5640EA

I have a laptop HP Pavilion ZE5640EA. The power button is crasehd. Can i
make some direct connection in the board ? Short some pins to power on the
laptop ? In desktop motherboards, we just join 2 pins and the motherboard
startup. Can we do something like this in the laptops ?

Thansk.

On Sep 30, 4:40*pm, "Avelino Tavares" <avelino_tava...@netvisao.pt>
wrote:
> I have a laptop HP Pavilion ZE5640EA. The power button is crasehd. Can i
> make some direct connection in the board ? Short some pins to power on the
> laptop ? In desktop motherboards, we just join 2 pins and the motherboard
> startup. Can we do something like this in the laptops ?
>
> Thansk.

I have a ZE5730us and the power switch is a momentary on push button
which does as you say, shorts two pins going to motherboard when
button depressed. The button is on a small board with other switches
& LEDs and you can determine which two pins of the connector between
that small board and motherboard connector by examination of that
small board & the help of an ohmmeter. It is one of those connector
pins to ground via a corner connector pin which is ground.

Generally, one can determine which pins do what without an ohmmeter. Remove the
plastic panel with all the buttons (if one has not already done so) and then see
where the buttons line up versus the small circuit board which has the switches.

On many laptops, these momentary switches are not pins, but something a little
more tolerant of wear and tear... Ben Myers

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:35:47 -0700 (PDT), jmor <jem2b@tx.rr.com> wrote:

>On Sep 30, 4:40*pm, "Avelino Tavares" <avelino_tava...@netvisao.pt>
>wrote:
>> I have a laptop HP Pavilion ZE5640EA. The power button is crasehd. Can i
>> make some direct connection in the board ? Short some pins to power on the
>> laptop ? In desktop motherboards, we just join 2 pins and the motherboard
>> startup. Can we do something like this in the laptops ?
>>
>> Thansk.
>
>I have a ZE5730us and the power switch is a momentary on push button
>which does as you say, shorts two pins going to motherboard when
>button depressed. The button is on a small board with other switches
>& LEDs and you can determine which two pins of the connector between
>that small board and motherboard connector by examination of that
>small board & the help of an ohmmeter. It is one of those connector
>pins to ground via a corner connector pin which is ground.