Jantsa

Hi,

I'm soldering remote startbutton for my laptop. Only thing that I'm worrying is what kind of switch should I get?

Basically I would like to have switch with led light, so that I see that computer is powered and on. So it's same button as the laptop's own powerbutton is.

I'm just soldering two wires, and when switch makes connection laptop starts.

Red some posts, and someone was talking about momentary switch...

Nickwell24

a momentary switch will be useful if you end up doing a mod like i am where i'm soldering my power button to my modem cable jack. Then i'm running the other end of the phone line and hooking it up to a momentary switch.

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Jantsa

Ok, so momentary switch it should be. I know the right pins, but led thing is weird. Original power switch has 6 different pins. They are numbered as 1,2,3,4,5,6. Numbers 1 and 2 makes computer to start. Then there is those 3,4,5 and 6.
Numbers 3 and 4 points to led on the switch, numbers 5 and 6 points to second led on the switch. If I want to have led in my switch, should I wire also 3 and 4 and put a led in the end?
Result would be, that I have 4 wires wired. Two wires goes to remote start, and two goes for the led. Why the hell there is two leds?

Here's pic:

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/vbim...img&imgid=5297

Edit: and in the middle of the leds in the picture, there is a momentary switch.

Jantsa

I decided to take my laptop to the local electronics-shop. I get it back later today. They said that it's possible to take the original momentary switch away from the chip, solder new wires to chip, and solder original switch back to the end of wire.
That sounded great, because now I can use original cover from laptop, for my car's dashboard-mod. That's the way how I also get cool green led for my powerbutton
Hopefully they can do it without breaking anything. Guy in a shop said, that it could be hard if the original switch is glued to the chip.