<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:06 PM, A JM wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV>It's a Latitude 4100, since you guy's think there currently isn't an on/off remedy I was thinking about using a modification I used on my xbox (<A href="http://xir.us/xirpro.aspx">http://xir.us/xirpro.aspx </A>) that worked well I guess I could bypass the on/off switch, what do you guys think?<BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just brainstorming here -- If your laptop has a "wake on ring" feature in its BIOS, you might be able to interface that device to the serial port and avoid opening up the machine. I think you'd just have to pull the RI (ring indicator) pin high. This is pin 9 on a DB-9 serial port. Note that RS-232 uses negative voltages to indicate a logic 1, so that means applying -3 to -12 volts. You could probably test it with a 9-volt battery before spending any money on hardware.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>