My power button clicks and feels normal. It doesn’t work in any situation at all. I can turn on the deck from off by plugging in the cord and if it’s already on but screen off I can only wait for it to die or open the shell and disconnect the battery.
This deck has: full shell swap, replaced worn cap and drifting stick with hall effect sticks, aftermarket buttons, replacement screen, aftermarket 1tb nvme, always had L1 require addititonal force after the click to work.
All mods were done at the same time and had no problems apart from L1 for enough time to finish spiderman, miles morales, 80% of FFVIIR, Act 1 of BG3 7 times, All of evoland 1 and 2 plus againnin legendary edition, both god of war and ragnarok, expedition 33 up to the snow area, both subnautica games, and a bunch of friendslop titles in between.
About a month ago power button stopped working and I haven’t had the motivation to deal with it but I took it apart a little bit today, saw that the power button likely requires removing the mobo, and went back to not feeling like it.
Has anyone done a successful diy powerswitch repair? Ifixit only has instructions for the plastic piece on top, though the switch itself is probably a generic piece. I’ll attempt valve if it’s the only option but I don’t really want to deal with mailing out the damned thing especially if its just going to get rejected and blamed on the mods.
You could try working a little deoxyit or contact cleaner into the switch. Considering that it didn’t have a period of being flaky before it died, I am not optimistic that this will help.
Isn’t it great that the most important button is soldered on the backside of the mainboard, and is also fragile af?
yeah I probably wasn’t doing in shell desoldering anyway but it would have been nice if diagnosis didn’t require a full teardown and removing the apu heatsink and getting air dust on all the pads…