Wire Power Switch for Aspire One

Anyone have any ideas for how to wire up the power button on the Aspire One? I can access the button, but its connected to the motherboard by a ribbon cable. Seems pretty impossible to solder into it and run an external wire. Any ideas? To turn the computer back on from sleep, I just need to tap a key. It might just be easier to solder into a key. Would that be easier? Any help would be great! Thanks!!

got a pic for it?

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Originally Posted by chang

got a pic for it?

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I'll get one tomorrow. Thanks for the reply.

Heres the button, simple press switch directly connected to board.

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...9/f1aebf94.jpg

http://www.dhgate.com/1-to-4-car-cig...d0141208c.html

you can use something like this if your tablet works like mine which auto wakes up when power is applied. A ciggarette lighter adapter / charger with a on off switch. I saw one like this at a local wal-mart before, it should be easy enough to hack into and put whatever switch you on on it.

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Originally Posted by Dane Noro

http://www.dhgate.com/1-to-4-car-cig...d0141208c.html

you can use something like this if your tablet works like mine which auto wakes up when power is applied. A ciggarette lighter adapter / charger with a on off switch. I saw one like this at a local wal-mart before, it should be easy enough to hack into and put whatever switch you on on it.

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That would be nice, but I can't get the netbook to wake on anything but a keyboard press. Its very frustrating. Once power is cut (car turned off)... all the USB ports lose their ability to wake up the computer.The only thing that I can find that will wake the computer is by pressing a key.

I don't have an aspire but my Eeepc has the same button. One of the legs will power it on with a ground signal (on the eeepc). I just soldered a wire to that leg and touch it to ground with my start up controller.

Side note, I found that when the lid on the laptop was closed the button no longer worked. I had to remove the lid switch magnet to get it to think the lid was open all of the time. The LCD stays lit but now the button works.

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Originally Posted by dmcdlrn

I don't have an aspire but my Eeepc has the same button. One of the legs will power it on with a ground signal (on the eeepc). I just soldered a wire to that leg and touch it to ground with my start up controller.

Side note, I found that when the lid on the laptop was closed the button no longer worked. I had to remove the lid switch magnet to get it to think the lid was open all of the time. The LCD stays lit but now the button works.

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Thanks for the tip. I'll go searching for that. I had to remove my screen magnet as well. So hopefully it follows the same patten.

There is a picture here: http://www.mp3car.com/worklogs/15090...x-5-build.html

Not very good picture but you can see the black wire goes to the bottom left leg of the switch.