Testing keyboard connector with external power key

My PowerBook recently would not wake from sleep. I was unable to use the usual cmdctrlpwr to reboot it, so I removed the battery. Since then, it has not responded in any way to my pressing the power key. (The battery has all its LEDs and the power adapter turns colors when plugged in.)
I've had a few keyboard connector problems recently, so I tried reseating the connector to no avail. Additionally, an external USB keyboard's power key had no effect. My question is this: should the PowerBook G4 17" 1.33GHz respond to a power key on an external keyboard? If it should, then I can stop working on the keyboard connector and think about the power system and logic board.
I can't find any listing of computers on which this behavior is supported; if I missed something, please let me know. Thanks!

most likely it's not supposed to work with the external power button on the keyboard.
if you are removing top case, there are "power button" contacts in the lower middle of the logic board which can be used for testing.
no power issue could be caused by bad keyboard/keyboard cable, since the power button connects thru the keyboard cable.
any taking aprt of laptops at home is risky though and could cause more damage.

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Open up Terminal.app (under utilities) and type "diskutil list" without the quotes. This is the command line version of Disk Utility. If the external drive doesn't show up at all, then it's likely not connected properly, not getting power, or just plain dead. If it shows up with only a devce name like disk0s16 but no volume it means the drive is seen, the OS just can't make sense of it.
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If the unit isn't showing up, as per step 1, try a different USB port. More importantly with your unit, try it on another side of the unit if possible. If you read the book I referenced above, some of those units have I/O boards that are separated from the logic board. If the cable from the logic board to the I/O card goes bad or has problems, which isn't all that uncommon, some or all of the ports on the I/O card may appear to be bad as well. If you use a USB port on another side, it would be routing out of a completely different I/O path, so that's a potential problem.
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