...a small ribbon cable. The problem arises when the cable weakens and breaks due to repeated flexing (pressing of the power button). What ended up happening to my laptop was quite simple ...
...circuit is good. If not, check your warranty and have it serviced professionally as it would mean a motherboard repair or replacement. If it is the Flex cable or panel, you may still want to have it ...
...on a large torroidial inductor where the RTV holding it to the board wasn't enough to keep it from flexing around until the solder joint broke. Resoldered and it's back in service for a year
...flex cable had come partially out of the connector on the PC board! (It is just to the left of the little circuit board for the power switch) There are no clips or anything to hold it in and it had ...
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