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How to power on? Cant use power pads or keyboard

I am working on converting my old macbook into a SFF desktop to use for media and I need a way to turn it on without the keyboard. The keyboard is stuffed (It had coke spilled through it), the retention arm is broken to hold the cable in also, I tried soldering on another power button onto the power on pads with a resistor (cant remember what resistance I read somewhere) but it didn't work so I took the button I made off and now there is only 1 power on pad visible the other one is just gone and wont jump start with just a piece of wire like it did before. Does anyone know of another way that I can turn it on? Would a keyboard with a power button work?

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Schematics show that pin5 (right to left) shorted to ground on keyboard connector of the logic board should allow you to simulate the on/off keyboard button.

However, on these schematics of A1342 I found some other mistakes before, therefore don't blame me if anything goes wrong =;)

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Thanks, I managed to get it turned on using this :)

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No need to access the connector this model has power pads!

There are a few versions of this logic board so your pads maybe vertical but are in the same location. You need to do a momentary short across the pads. I would start there otherwise you'll need a replacement keyboard to replace your damaged one.

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As I said above I only have 1 power on pad as I must of unsoldered the other one by mistake

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Depending on which pad you can short the good pad to ground as well thats if the sound pad is the one thats damaged.

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