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by iamjason89 1038 days ago
The power button broke on a dell laptop i was working on one time. We had to order the part, but the customer didn't want to wait.

I offered a very cheap alternative, and took his spare wifi antenna cables and cut the off. Then I soldered them DIRECTLY to the motherboard and routed them to hang out the side.

It was like jumper cables, you tap the and the laptop would turn on