Hi folks. I have an m6805 and I have a few questions.
On the left hand side of the computer, above the two USB ports and the firewire port, there is a long, thin port of some kind.
1) What is this port for?
What's interesting to me about the port is that inside the port, on the right hand side of the port, is a plastic head on a little spring. It looks like some kind of button.
2) What does this button do?
What's interesting about this button is that it slides parallel to the keyboard inside the port, in a circular fashion. If I slide the button out just past the metallic lip of the inside of the port, then just as I'm sliding it back into the port, the power will immediately shut off. This is almost exactly reproducible, although I have to occasionally slide the button a few times to make this happen. It also happens occasionally when I push the button in. Sometimes I can restart the computer just by pushing the power button to the top right of the keyboard, but sometimes I can't restart it unless I remove the battery and (sometimes) AC power. After this panic shutdown, I can see a faint glow in the blue plug light under the touchpad when the AC power is in, but that's it.
Here's what I think. I think somehow that moving this button is causing a short circuit, which panics the computer and so it shuts down. The power system then remembers the short circuit and refuses to turn back on, unless I remove the power to "reset" its memory.
3) Does that make sense?
4) Has anyone encountered this before?
I am positive this is not temperature related, because I can twiddle the button to kill the computer even when the computer is doing nothing but running a blank desktop. I did have the temperature problem a while ago, and Best Buy support fixed it by dusting the HDD assembly. I did a search through the forum but did not see this problem mentioned. This is a problem for me because sometimes the computer just shuts down for no reason, which I think is due to the button being close to the "short" position and then the computer jiggles or something.
Thanks!
On the left hand side of the computer, above the two USB ports and the firewire port, there is a long, thin port of some kind.
1) What is this port for?
What's interesting to me about the port is that inside the port, on the right hand side of the port, is a plastic head on a little spring. It looks like some kind of button.
2) What does this button do?
What's interesting about this button is that it slides parallel to the keyboard inside the port, in a circular fashion. If I slide the button out just past the metallic lip of the inside of the port, then just as I'm sliding it back into the port, the power will immediately shut off. This is almost exactly reproducible, although I have to occasionally slide the button a few times to make this happen. It also happens occasionally when I push the button in. Sometimes I can restart the computer just by pushing the power button to the top right of the keyboard, but sometimes I can't restart it unless I remove the battery and (sometimes) AC power. After this panic shutdown, I can see a faint glow in the blue plug light under the touchpad when the AC power is in, but that's it.
Here's what I think. I think somehow that moving this button is causing a short circuit, which panics the computer and so it shuts down. The power system then remembers the short circuit and refuses to turn back on, unless I remove the power to "reset" its memory.
3) Does that make sense?
4) Has anyone encountered this before?
I am positive this is not temperature related, because I can twiddle the button to kill the computer even when the computer is doing nothing but running a blank desktop. I did have the temperature problem a while ago, and Best Buy support fixed it by dusting the HDD assembly. I did a search through the forum but did not see this problem mentioned. This is a problem for me because sometimes the computer just shuts down for no reason, which I think is due to the button being close to the "short" position and then the computer jiggles or something.
Thanks!
