Laptop remote on/off issue -- SOLVED: s2000 carputer

**trancified** · 07-13-2004, 04:32 PM

I didn's unsolder the switch... I left it there.. I went *underneath* the MB to where the 2 pins from the switch were sticking out and I soldered to them.

All I had to do was tin the wires first, then gently for a half second solder them to the pins... easy as pie... then again I've been doing microelectronic soldering for a number of years now.

**skybolt** · 07-19-2004, 01:21 AM

All the mod docking stations (and laptops) have 5 pole switches. The switch can sense a quick press (turn on or turn off) or a 4-second hold (power off everything). It's a good feature to have -- I can do a graceful shutdown, or force a reboot if the system is completely hosed.

**trancified** · 07-19-2004, 01:32 AM

In my case, I was lucky. The switch was a simple 2 pole mo-switch, with resistors and caps to get the (in my case) 8 sec hold (power off everything)

**Deadnick** · 07-19-2004, 01:32 AM

Hmmm, I would have just removed the cover from the docking station and soldered a wire onto each side of the buttons circuit and ran the wires outside the case with a little molex plug on the end then run a wire from that up to the front to a button.

Just my 2 cents.

**Mitokondria** · 07-19-2004, 01:57 AM

This wins the MacGuyver Ghetto Rig Award for most innovative design.

Fantastic work, give your buddy Brent some mad prop points from me for comming up with that thing.

**moahdib** · 09-20-2004, 02:19 PM

Dude..that is rad....
I just worked ona mod for Jeff shutdown controller (Mastero also sells them) and added a second relay, a resisitor and a cap which will give me a pulse when you first turn on the car, and when you turn off sends another pulse to send the laptop to hibernation.

I shall post a diagram soon. I just had to open up my docking station and solder one wire on to the switch. ( i have a dell 4100 series)

**JonR28** · 09-20-2004, 10:41 PM

haha, actually I opened my laptop up, and presed around with a paperclick till I found the "power-on" soders... theN I soddered wires to them, taped them down... and ran the wires into my dashboard.... 20 minutes of work and I got remote start. Unfortunatly my computer is permenantly in my car until I build a plug for the cables. Anyone want pictures on how I did this PM me, I have it well documented.

btw. its a sony Vaio.

**gospeed.racer** · 09-20-2004, 10:52 PM

if you have room, maybe wire up a tiny audio jack to the case, so it is flush...hardly noticable when "undocked" from the car. This one is from
Radio Shack