God Emperor Akhenaton
Minion4Hire
God Emperor Akhenaton
Janna565
Saruwatari Kooji
Janna565
We plugged a usb keyboard for now, meh
So...the computer works just fine, but the keyboard is borked?
Do you know anyone that is good with computers or does computer repairs? If all the issue is a fried keyboard, that is ridiculously easy and fairly cheap to fix.
Oh really how? Tell us
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So let me get this straight. I have been telling you that the keyboard itself needs to be replaced and you ignore me, but when Saruwatari says that the keyboard itself needs to be replaced, then you suddenly ask about that? WHY?
What you said:
"It is broken. It can be fixed."
What Saruwatari said:
"It is broken. You can easily fix this."
They followed that by asking how/why it is easy or how to fix it. People want an easy fix. Keyboards are relatively easy, but from the quality of the OP's posts I wouldn't personally recommend they replace it themselves. I guess it can't get much worse than it is, but... yeah. But if Saruwatari is willing to walk them through it, more power to him.
That's my perspective anyhow.
It is only easy once you learn how to do it. Keyboards come off depending of the laptop. A Toshiba Satellite has screws under a plastic strip while an HP Mini has screws behind the battery. It's all different.
In terms of a general sense of knowing how to replace
any laptop keyboard I would agree, but for a specific model you can easily give someone instructions.
You're generally looking at between 2-5 screws to remove, occasionally the odd "hinge cover" or "keyboard cover" as noted, and then it's just the ZIF connector. It's really not a difficult task, it's just knowing what steps to perform. Instructions are all you really need. Of course if you're "going in blind" and have zero experience then you're gonna have a bad time.
But must manufacturers consider keyboards CRUs or "customer replaceable units". As such they are intentionally easy to replace.
