I power the laptop with its external PSU and removed the battery. Not sure that answers your question.
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yuman@programming.dev 5 hours ago
very cool. wanted to do ~exactly that~ something similar. I don’t want to buy the adapter board, I just wanna utilise the existing two SATA ports in the laptop; one HDD, one DVD. haven’t figured a zerospend way to do that, as the SATA ports on the MB are female, as are the cables.
second, don’t wanna use an external PSU, there’s gotta be a way to get 12 V off the board somehow or use a step-down module from, say, backlight?
does acer have a power-on on AC setting in the setup or do you have to power it on manually?
BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
- yuman@programming.dev 4 hours ago
when you connect the PSU, does the laptop power on or do you have to press the power button? mine doesn’t power on on its own, with or without battery.
BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
I have to press the power button.
If you remove the battery (to avoid swelling), you'll have a vacant port. But connecting that in any way that won't fry your drives is another question I haven't solved...