Electronic Guru's please - Extending a power button cable

[DJMK4]

at the back of the power button there will be 2 contacts, solder some old pc fan wire or speaker cable e.t.c to both contacts and then you can mount a switch to those wires.
forget soldering to the ribbon and using single core cat5e :\

simplez

Cool thanks for the info, although i can't remember seeing the two contacts on there, the ribbon just slots in to a white plastic slot, inside there are 5 pin outputs.

I will have to check to see if I can see two pin outputs

 

[Shadez]

So have wires from the push button on the DVD player joined to the PCB contact that was with the laptop?

Or just buy a longer FFC cable http://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/connectors/general-purpose/cable/?searchTerm=ffc+cables

 

[neodude]

Forget the ribbon. The 2 contacts will either be at the back of the switch if it's a PTH device or more likely on the side as it looks like an SMT device (surface mounted). Basically you need to solder the two wires to the place where the switch is soldered to the board. From the looks of it the switch may have 4 contacts (DPST), you may need to use a multimeter to find out which pair are shorted when the switch is pushed (although you can usually tell by the circuit trace design).