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Lux1

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Nov 18, 2008
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My project for the past few months has been buying cheap powermac g5 components whenever they happened to pop up- I have everything in place now but just need help getting the power button to work.

The attached image shows my issue: I have a slot on the logic board I believe is supposed to plug into the power button assembly (both circled). I have a little cable that is the right length and fits into the end on the logic board but don't see how exactly it is meant to connect to the power assembly.

Could someone help me out? Hopefully I don't need another power assembly?

Also: in the mean time, can I bridge any of the contacts on the motherboard to entice this thing to start without the power button?
 

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Is it possible that you got the wrong cable or front board for that machine or logicboard?
 
Is it possible that you got the wrong cable or front board for that machine or logicboard?

Nope. OP's panel just lacks socket. Someone had to broke it off earlier.
It should look like this:

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You are still doing better than me! I still have two G5 towers with everything except working logic boards. It looks as if you have an offer for the front panel, take it and get that thing up and running!
 
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