HP DV9000 fingerprint sensor cable connection orientation

Note to self, and a warning to anyone else who ever attempts to remove the top cover/palmrest of an hp DV9000 laptop with a fingerprint sensor – the cable can be attached backwards, causing a major internal meltdown and destroying the extremely rare cable when the wires short! If you catch it in time and pull the plug when you first smell the magic smoke, everything else should survive, but the cable will still be destroyed. The proper orientation of this cable is: labeled side UP at the sensor board, labeled side DOWN at the system board.

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