How to Clean, Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble a Laptop or Notebook Keyboard

One or more keys fell off the laptop keyboard and you are not sure how to put them back? Don't worry, most likely you can fix the keyboard and it's not necessary to buy a new one.

This guide will explain how to take apart the laptop and exchange major components such as CD/DVD drive, memory, hard drive, wireless card, cooling fan and keyboard.

Under the battery cover you can find three black screws which appear to correspond to the cover above the keyboard on the upper side of the laptop. Unscrew these to get the keyboard replaced.

A short guide explaining how to remove the laptop keyboard (in German).

This is the guide to replace the keyboard on this laptop. It is fairly straight forward to do and all the tools you need are: #1 Phillips screwdriver and a small flat screwdriver.

Dismantling the laptop as far as the motherboard, removing the screen and replacing the LCD panel, pictures from the motherboard and keyboard details.

How take the keyboard out of a gaming notebook.

A fiber optic backlit keyboard for the notebook.

A keyboard illumination hack, describing how to use white or blue LEDs to backlit the notebook keyboard.

Zen and the art of keyboard maintenance. How to take all the caps off and fix a broken keyboard cable.

Keyboard blues: make a hybrid keyboard of a G3-iBook-keyboard and G4-iBook-keyboard.

Zen and the art of keyboard-maintenance.

Keyboards can rapidly be covered with mud. But they can keep on for years if one takes carefully care of them and do not use them as a food tray! Quick cleaning of an iBook keyboard.

Tips, tricks and pictures about cleaning the keyboard.

Memory upgrade, hard disk upgrade, modem installation, keyboard exchange (in Japanese).

Overclocking, cleaning the keyboard, changing the CAPS LOCK light to a red LED, adding a hard drive activity light, adding a ADB port in place of the modem, repairing the AC adapter port.

Memory upgrade, keyboard exchange, hard disk upgrade, modem installation, backup battery replacement (in Japanese).

Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard exchange, modem installation, CPU upgrade (in Japanese).

Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard exchange (in Japanese).

Key-cap replacement instructions.

Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard exchange (in Japanese).

Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard replacement (in Japanese).

Worried about an overly flexible keyboard?

Poison Powerbook: how to make the backlit keyboard glow red, Apple logo color mod, keyboard cleaning and take apart instructions.

Your quick guide to replacing Apple keys: there are several types of Apple laptops and therefore a lot of different keycaps. Luckily, most of the keys work the same way across all of the PowerBook, iBook, and MacBook models. The only tool that may be needed for key replacement is a flat head tool such as a nylon spudger or a flat head screw driver [PDF].

How to integrate the receiver of an external cordless Logitech USB mouse and keyboard into the laptop case between the rear panel and GPU/chipset heatsink.

Replacing a laptop keyboard isn't difficult, if you know what you are doing. Most of the time, because laptops keyboards seem so well integrated, it is tough to get started without knowing where to start.

How to add a light to illuminate the keyboard from above.

What good is that portable PC if you can't type anywhere and anytime? Clearly, a keyboard backlight like those found in higher-end laptops is the answer to your nocturnal typing woes. And for less than $15, such a backlight can be installed with minimal fuss.

This guide reveals the secret trick to get the keyboard removed and get access to the inside of the notebook.

How to make the notebook silent, by fixing the rattling keyboard.

Laptop Keyboard Repair: Not all notebook keyboards are made the same, and the keyboard you get when buying one of those budget notebooks isn't always a high durability keyboard, especially if you are a heavy typist. This laptop had a few keys that died after about two years of usage. This HOWTO describes repairing the silicon membranes instead of buying an expensive original keyboard. After disassembling the defective keyboard, you will see that the silicon membranes that provided the support for each key where independent, unlike their desktop counterparts, where there is usually one big membrane covering the entire keyboard. So you may use the membrane of one of those slim desktop keyboards that are cheaply available everywhere.

Replacing laptop keys (and keyboards).

Keyboard replacement instructions.

This page discusses how to safely and easily clean the keyboard on a notebook computer.

How to convert a laptop keyboard into a desktop keyboard.

Reattach a broken or lost keyboard key.

This guide explains how you can remove and replace keyboard, memory and hard drive for the laptop. The keyboard replacement procedure is relatively simple and you can easily do it yourself at home. Proceed on your own risk.

Most V2xxx keyboards shared the same problem; when typing in the area where the arrows are, you can feel that there is space between the keyboard and the metal casing. You can hear a vibrating sound, like if the keys were bouncing. The easy fix is to remove the keyboard, and put some kind of thin cloth, kleenex, whatever below the keyboard. The keyboard now becomes firm and easy to use.

"Captain Disassemble" to the rescue: how to replace the keyboard.

Keyboard removal instructions.

Keyboard replacement tutorial.

How to exchange a broken or lost laptop keyboard key.

This article tells about keyboard key replacement.

The keyboard removal and replacement procedure is pretty much straightforward and shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.

Keyboard replacement guide.

The Ultimate DELL 8IK Keyboard Fix: how to replace the original laptop keyboard with a small USB keyboard.

There is a problem with some of Dell's notebook/laptop computers periodically or permanently a diagonal row of keys 8 i k , will stop functioning. Here is a simple but unofficial method of repairing a laptop that had the dreaded 8ik keyboard flaw.

Replacing the keyboard: an illustrated step-by-step guide.

All the tips and trick to get a keyboard key exchanged.

Taking the keyboard out is the first step of everything in most notebook. Thus, you will find it much easier when trying to upgrade anything else. What's surprising most is you don't have to have even a screw driver to complete this job since the manufacturer decided to use a sticky tape and plastic lock mechanism to stabilize the keyboard instead of any screw and it gets the job done nicely.

Need to fix a broken or fallen off keyboard key? This illustrated HOWTO explains all the dirty work.

You need to replace a broken keyboard key? Here is a useful guide.

How to substitute the laptop keyboard.

How to substitute a keyboard key: step-by-step explanations and pics.

Keycap substitution guide.

A tutorial about laptop keyboard key replacement.

A guide to keyboard key substitution.

How to reattach a lost keyboard key.

A keyboard checkup guide.

How to remove hard drive, memory, wireless card and keyboard.

Reseating the keyboard connector.

Keycap exchange: a concise guide.

Here are instructions for upgrading the laptop memory in seven relatively easy steps. Upgrading memory on this laptop could be tricky because one of the memory expansion slots is located under the keyboard.

This guide explains how to remove and replace the display panel from. Also you can use this guide for: replacing or upgrading the memory module installed in the internal memory slot, removing and replacing the keyboard, removing and replacing the cooling fan, cleaning the heat sink, removing and replacing the CMOS (RTC) battery.

How to remove the keyboard (aka: Where is the second RAM Slot?)

This laptop has two memory slots. One of them could be easily accessed from the bottom but the second one is hidden under the keyboard. In order to replace the memory module in the internal slot you'll have to remove the keyboard.

Repairing a design flaw of the keyboard.

DaliPC: an old laptop being transformed into an "electronic painting". Booting with no keyboard hack.

Take apart an old notebook and reassembly it as a digital picture frame. The keyboard hack describes how to go along without keyboard.

An illustrated explanation of the key mechanism, how to remove the spring, ring and frame of a keyboard key.

HOW-TO: Laptop resurrection and upgrade, battery revival, membrane keyboard repairs, trackpoint transplant, adding USB ports and wireless LAN.

Revitalizing an aging notebook on the cheap: this tutorial will show you how to clean the notebook up, replace its slow and overloaded hard disk drive, install extra memory, replace the keyboard, and gave it a software tune up.

This HOWTO explains how to substitute the keyboard of the notebook.

How to change a broken keyboard key.

Keyboard replacement instructions.

According to the official hardware maintenance manual these laptops can take up to 2GB memory total. You can install up to 1GB memory module into each slot, but before you have to take off the keyboard.

Keyboard replacment made easy.

How to repair a missing notebook key.

How to remove the keyboard from the laptop.

So let's say that your XO laptop keyboard doesn't work. No matter if it's due to the "sticky keys" problem, or if you happened to dunk it in the kitchen sink in a foolish waterboarding test. Either way, you'll need to strip your XO.

A detailed procedure for getting the keyboard off the laptop.

Putting a LED into the case to light the keyboard (includes take apart pictures).

How does the hinge mechanisms under the keyboard key work? Key exchangement tricks.

How to open the keyboard to get access to the hard disk drive (in Japanese).

RAM, hard disk and keyboard upgrade, with disassembly pictures.

Keyboard removal guide with pictures.

How to change the CPU, fixing the noisy keyboard (in German).

This short step-by-step tutorial explains how to change a single keyboard key.

Keycap substitution: how to fit the plastic hinge mechanism into the metal keyboard hooks.

How to remove the laptop keyboard and clean it from spilled soda.

How to fix the spacebar (video).

A quick guide on how to install PS/2 mouse and keyboard connections to the standard port replicator.

How to replace individual keys on your laptop's keyboard.

How to remove and replace the keyboard on this laptop.

Individual keyboard caps replacement guide.

Keycap replacement guide.

These instructions show how to remove the wireless card from the laptop. Also, you can use this guide for removing the keyboard.

If you need to replace the key of this laptop or similar models this tutorial tells you all you need to know.

How to remove and replace the laptop keyboard.

How to remove the keyboard to get access to the memory slot.

Cleaning a laptop keyboard.

How to reattach or replace a laptop keyboard key.