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Where are LED lights hidden and how to reset SMU switch internally

I have this mac that won't power up and wanted to at least check the LED lights and hit the internal power switch. However, the LEDs seem impossible to find, I read somewhere that they were hidden under the right speaker but I did not find them.

Does anyone know where to look for the LEDs and an internal SMU switch to try to force a restart on this model? This is the iSight so the insides are deliberately obfuscated.

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@ mayer, are those it :-)?

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Sometimes those LED lights are on the logic board just to the right of the RAM slots, covered by a piece of black electrical tape that extends up from the bottom edge of the logic board.

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Miraculous! Nobody has been able to find these! Thank you so much for both your answers because they're so small, I don't think I would have recognized them even if I had found them accidentally.

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Since you both clearly know this computer inside and out ... do you know where the PMU button is? It's supposed to be on the logic board, a small black button ... has anyone seen it?

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I think that black button is only on the older models....:-)

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