Hello to all, my XPC randomly shut itself off while I was using it and after some troubleshooting it turns out the culprit is the front panel ribbon cable that connects the power and reset button to the mobo. If I push the excess cable down and make contact with a nearby front panel header on the board the pc turns on and has 0 issues staying on (until I push it again and mess around with its position). Upon removing the cable I can see there are damaged pins on it - the board was removed when I restored the system could i have damaged the cable in the process? Was powering it on for a week after I cleaned everything up however.

The cable seems to have some kind of foil insulation on it which is conductive as it made contact with a ram stick and sparked a bit. I have measured its length and counted its pins to find a replacement which I have found but I am unsure if that insulation was important to its function, or whether or not the official shuttle part is proprietary? It is a 50 pin FFC cable with 0.5mm of distance between its pins, and is a reverse direction cable.

Am I also able to jump the psu and have it power the system on automatically when I plug it into power? I know you can do it when the atx connector isnt plugged in but can you do it when it is connected, from the top? Don't want to risk it before asking. What about soldering wires with a connector onto the power buttons pins and plugging it into the JP8 header? Like this https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/194953298971

This is the cable I found
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/353530253333?var=622823170644

The fact that this board has 2 front panel headers, and it decides to use the weird one is pissing me off 🤣. Probably because of firewire?

Board manual is here (FS56 V2.0, the v2.0 is important to note) https://theretroweb.com/motherboard/manual/fs … 34152913995.pdf