Laptop Keyboard Repair
Laptop keyboard repair is one of the more common jobs performed on laptops,
it's also one of the easier repairs to carry out providing the following hasn't
happened.
A spill of anything but water on a keyboard will 9 times out of 10 leave you in a
situation that involves replacing the keyboard all together.
Keyboards are manufactured in such a way that leaves little to no room to clean
out messy spills.
Basically any liquid containing sugar (soft drinks, beer, wine, coffee or tea) are
bad news...
A couple of laptop keyboard repair do’s and don’ts in the event of a spill..
DON’T panic. Panic makes us do stupid things, think before you react.
DON’T use a hairdryer to dry out a spill...melted keys are hard to type with.
DON’T tilt the machine upside down or on its side (if you do feel the need it's
better to tilt it to the side that houses the CDROM as the CDROM area inside the
machine has less components on it than the mainboard).
DO switch the machine off immediately and resist switching it back on until you're
certain the spill has dried. Survey the damage after you've dried it out. At this
point you could remove the keyboard and try the machine using an external
keyboard to see if anything else has been affected.
This diagram shows what a basic keyboard looks like, the ribbon cable which
connects the keyboard to the motherboard is indicated by the red arrow.
Laptop keyboard repair is one of the more common jobs performed on laptops,
it's also one of the easier repairs to carry out providing the following hasn't
happened.
A spill of anything but water on a keyboard will 9 times out of 10 leave you in a
situation that involves replacing the keyboard all together.
Keyboards are manufactured in such a way that leaves little to no room to clean
out messy spills.
Basically any liquid containing sugar (soft drinks, beer, wine, coffee or tea) are
bad news...
A couple of laptop keyboard repair do’s and don’ts in the event of a spill..
DON’T panic. Panic makes us do stupid things, think before you react.
DON’T use a hairdryer to dry out a spill...melted keys are hard to type with.
DON’T tilt the machine upside down or on its side (if you do feel the need it's
better to tilt it to the side that houses the CDROM as the CDROM area inside the
machine has less components on it than the mainboard).
DO switch the machine off immediately and resist switching it back on until you're
certain the spill has dried. Survey the damage after you've dried it out. At this
point you could remove the keyboard and try the machine using an external
keyboard to see if anything else has been affected.
This diagram shows what a basic keyboard looks like, the ribbon cable which
connects the keyboard to the motherboard is indicated by the red arrow.