Hey all! I’ve got an old ASUS ROG GL503GE laptop with broken keyboard and LCD but the PCB is fine, but the replacements for these are not cheap. So instead, I plan to turn this into desktop by transplanting this to a working-in-progress 3D-printed case.
I started by removing the board completely and immediately looked for a way to boot without the chassis by connecting it to the external power supply through the DC adapter and jumping the power LED connector but to no avail.
Then, I tried reconnecting this LED connector to the LED board that is factory-embedded to the chassis along with the keyboard and pressing the power button. This still doesn’t let me boot because turns out the power button is part of the keyboard and thus needs to be connected first.
I was finally able to make it boot only by reconnecting the seemingly keyboard connector back to the board, which didn’t surprise me because I had confirmed it could boot before I took it apart.
Maybe it is just me who did not jump this correctly in the first place, but is my assumption that the power LED connector is the only one needed in theory to boot the system valid?
Suppose that my assumption is valid. Now, I still need to figure out a way to make this boot with an external power button connecting to the board via the ribbon cable shown above. I expected this would be similar to desktop front panel connector but I have been looking for this for a while and I couldn’t find any product or even the right search key to look for this. So, does anyone know the name of this connector? Assuming this is not ASUS OEM, if someone can point me to a specific product available on Amazon or Ebay, that will be super helpful.
Thanks a lot!