One of the components of your laptop that is prone to damage is the keyboard. It is very easy to break these delicate parts especially when its innards are the tiniest. Replacing the keyboard is a crucial process. You can go to any computer retail provider to purchase replacement keyboards. Most manufacturers include a manual on how to do this. You may want to get an experienced PC technical support to do the process for you but you can also do it following these steps.
To remove the keyboard:
1. Turn your laptop completely off. Remove the battery and all the other components connected to it.
2. Turn your laptop bottom part up and remove all the screws. Some laptops have indicators as to where the screws are but if not, you just have to find each of them. Be sure to use the proper screw drivers: Philips Screw or in some models, T-8.
3. Turn over your laptop again to proper position, top part up and open it. Check to see if the keyboard is locked under plastic pieces. If so, unscrew each plastic piece and unfasten them as well. If there are no screws, then there might be a clamp which can easily be removed.
4. Remove the plastic pieces or whatever it is on the way one by one with a small pick or plastic pick and make sure you keep them all in one place.
5. If there are screws, unscrew the keyboard one by one from top to bottom. You’ll notice that the keyboard is connected with a thin, but wide, data cable to the system board at the bottom.
6. Use the pick again to remove the plastic connectors that hold this data cable in place.
7. Slowly remove the data cable and the keyboard should be free by now.
To replace the keyboard:
1. Connect the data cable of your new keyboard to the system board of your laptop. Make sure that the data cable is slipped in between the plastic connectors and is connected all the way through.
2. Put the plastic connectors back in place by using the pick again. Make sure that the data cable is secured within.
3. Put the new keyboard in place. This time from bottom to top. Make sure all screw slots and clamps line at the top.
4. Reattach the clamps and/or screws at the top.
5. If there were plastic pieces you had to unclamp or unscrew, make sure you put them all back in order.
6. Turn the laptop over again, bottom part up, and put back all keyboard screws.
7. Put the battery back in and turn your laptop on. If all went well, the keyboard should be working fine.
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