While i wait for support to respond. I wanted to get confirmation on powering up since my charge board is dead. Other posts say connecting pins 2 and 3 on the J1 plug. Do i disconnect the batteries and find a way to connect those two pins together? My board is damaged so i don’t want to do anything that will cause more problems, but it would be nice to update my firmware and get it working till i can get a replacement board. Thoughts on this?
It doesn’t look like there is an easy way to jumper on J1 without using clips or soldering.
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You don’t need to do anything on the charger board. Remove the cables going to the charger board on the motherboard. Then you can use a 2mm pitch shunt (jumper) directly on the pins of the connector that you just removed the charger board cables from.
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that umm, makes a lot more sense. 
Thank you!
its allllliiive. Now to update the firmware.
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Could you post a picture how you done it? I’m still confused how it’s done by word.
Do I need to use one of these on motherboard
and connect pin 2 and pin 3 together?
yeah here ya go. you want to jump pins 2&3 from the right. A few things i noticed when doing this.
- The back cover has a heat shield connected to the CPU. So you might need to tap the side to get it to fall away after unscrewing.
- The two connectors that go to the charge port are in there pretty good. Don’t use the cable to pull them out.
- I didn’t have the correct sized jumper so i used a female to female cable. If i don’t have enough metal to metal contact with the pins, the laptop will power up but not boot. So i taped it to keep it secure till i get something that works better.
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Many thanks, my confusion is cleared.
I tried to understand every bit of informations that could happen to pocket reform as I can since I live in Taiwan and getting a charger board or other replacement part won’t be a fast and easy task, knowing every work around is very useful.
Thank you.
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