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Bobby Digital · 03-29-2005, 05:33 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by moahdib

the power button for a standard ATX mobo shoudl be the same for laptops. At least it is the same on mine.
Check my sig below and go to post #52. I have some pics of the uSDC20D controller hooked up to my dell laptop with docking station.

I have a Sony laptop and a Dell and neither of them have jumper-style pins like an atx motherboard, just pads that the button is soldered to. I ended up using the Dell in the car and had to solder wires to the pads and extend them outside of the laptop case to hook up to my shutdown controller.

So, to the original poster, you have to take it apart and look where the power button is hooked up to. If it's just pins then you lucked out and you can hook it up to that, otherwise you might have to do some soldering.

There are also shutdown controllers available that can shutdown via the serial port and some software (eg. DSSC), but these I don't think there is a startup option when you use it like that so you will have to setup the laptop BIOS to resume on power loss (if it has that option in BIOS).

03-29-2005, 05:33 PM	#4
Bobby Digital Variable Bitrate Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Surrey, BC, Canada Vehicle: 1994/Ford/Probe GT Posts: 246 My Photos: ()	Quote: Originally Posted by moahdib the power button for a standard ATX mobo shoudl be the same for laptops. At least it is the same on mine. Check my sig below and go to post #52. I have some pics of the uSDC20D controller hooked up to my dell laptop with docking station. I have a Sony laptop and a Dell and neither of them have jumper-style pins like an atx motherboard, just pads that the button is soldered to. I ended up using the Dell in the car and had to solder wires to the pads and extend them outside of the laptop case to hook up to my shutdown controller. So, to the original poster, you have to take it apart and look where the power button is hooked up to. If it's just pins then you lucked out and you can hook it up to that, otherwise you might have to do some soldering. There are also shutdown controllers available that can shutdown via the serial port and some software (eg. DSSC), but these I don't think there is a startup option when you use it like that so you will have to setup the laptop BIOS to resume on power loss (if it has that option in BIOS).