Can you guys tell me if I can turn on my laptop by shorting any of the leads in my motherboard (HP-14qcs0006TU)?

[AdamWarlock]

this is the image of my laptops motherboard 

This is the daughter board where my power button resides

[zinco]

if the button is broken, trying to short it through the daughterboard is possible. 

you may not be able to do it through the mainboard since it uses a connector to connect w/ the daughterboard and you might risk damaging it.

[AdamWarlock]

2 minutes ago, zinco said:

if the button is broken, trying to short it through the daughterboard is possible. 

you may not be able to do it through the mainboard since it uses a connector to connect w/ the daughterboard and you might risk damaging it.

Do you know which pins should I short? Thanks in advance 

[zinco]

1 minute ago, AdamWarlock said:

Do you know which pins should I short? Thanks in advance 

depends on the board. 

 

shorting the contacts of the button itself (if they are exposed/visible) should make it turn on.

[tkitch]

21 minutes ago, AdamWarlock said:

Do you know which pins should I short? Thanks in advance 

look for the power button.
Then look under the power button and short the pins that're on the back of that.

[AdamWarlock]

22 minutes ago, zinco said:

depends on the board. 

 

shorting the contacts of the button itself (if they are exposed/visible) should make it turn on.

Okay I'll look around for it thanks

[HanZie82]

1 hour ago, tkitch said:

look for the power button.
Then look under the power button and short the pins that're on the back of that.

This or out of luck.

Also the pictures are not good enough by far to do trace research you ask for.
Show us where the power button connects then maybe we can help. (After you take it out and shown us the other side).
We cannot make assumptions on what we do not know, thats where you're troubles will grow bigger.
Else do what @tkitch said.

And if its just to get the data on the hard-drives of off there. Just take out the hard-drive put it in other machine and transfer needed files.

[OhYou_]

Do you own a soldering iron?
unsolder the power button and solder two wires in its place and just touch them together to turn it on
Please do not short random contacts on the pcb, remove that daughter board and post a picture of the other side first. We can at least circle what location you need to touch with each end of a wire to turn it on

After the laptop is on, you should go into the bios and change the setting that allows the laptop to power on when AC is attached. Most have this setting

[HanZie82]

1 minute ago, OhYou_ said:

After the laptop is on, you should go into the bios and change the setting that allows the laptop to power on when AC is attached. Most have this setting

This, i a very very good idea!!!